![]() ![]() The second front came from Washington, where Roosevelt's New Deal saw the creation of a number of regulatory agencies, and the threat of a federal agency in charge of censoring films was real. The Legion coordinated boycotts of sin-riddled Hollywood features, and even went so far as to insist that Catholics stay away from Hollywood movies altogether unless changes were enforced. John Timothy McNicholas, who organized the Legion of Decency to counter films that he deemed offensive. The first was the brainchild of Catholic archbishop Rev. That changed in 1934 thanks to two prominent movements. The problem was that the MPPDA didn't have the authority to force studios to adhere to it, so while some made the effort to make changes, others flat-out ignored it. The "Be Carefuls" warned that films shouldn't glorify criminal activity of any sort, had to tread the attitude towards public characters and institutions carefully, especially when it came to the use of the American flag. The impact of the Church influenced the "Don'ts" as well, with any ridiculing of the clergy or profanity using the Lord's name in vain disallowed (although God, Lord, Jesus, and/or Christ were okay in the context of reverential religious rites). The "Don'ts" stated that sex, drugs, and nudity were simply not allowed, nor were scenes of white slavery, childbirth, and sexual relations between people of different races. The Code's rules were puritanical and severely limiting. And he wasn't alone: Hays worked with big studio executives, a Jesuit priest and a Catholic layman on a self-governing set of rules, "The Don'ts and Be Carefuls." Finally, in 1930, the MPPDA released the formal introduction of these rules: The Motion Picture Production Code, aka the Hays Code, named after Hays himself. He made it his goal to clean up Hollywood, and in 1927 began work on a new set of guidelines for the film industry. became the first president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). ![]() With Hollywood HelpÄuring this time, 1922 to be exact, former postmaster and chairman of the Republican National Committee Will H. ![]()
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