The Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry ：电影业的生产代码.docVIP

The Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry (1930-1967) This web site Movies from 1930 to 1967 were governed by a Production Code. ?This web site reproduces it and gives examples of where the Code prevented proposed stories and scenes from reaching American cinemas. Notes: Text which appeared in the 1930 edition of the Production Code appears in black type. Text for the slightly-modified editions which followed are in this brown shade. Text for the heavily-altered version of two-plus decades later appears in this maroon shade. The 1930 Production Code Preamble Motion picture producers recognize the high trust and confidence which have been placed in them by the people of the world and which have made motion pictures a universal form of entertainment. They recognize their responsibility to the public because of this trust and because entertainment and art are important influences in the life of a nation. Hence, though regarding motion pictures primarily as entertainment without any explicit purpose of teaching or propaganda, they know that the motion picture within its own field of entertainment may be directly responsible for spiritual or moral progress, for higher types of social life, and for much correct thinking. During the rapid transition from silent to talking pictures they realized the necessity and the opportunity of subscribing to a Code to govern the production of talking pictures and of acknowledging this responsibility. On their part, they ask from the public and from public leaders a sympathetic understanding of their purposes and problems and a spirit of cooperation that will allow them the freedom and opportunity necessary to bring the motion picture to a still higher level of wholesome entertainment for all the people. The paragraph two higher than this [During the rapid...] was omitted from a later printing. The paragraph immediately above is merely one of many which became more concise as revisions were prepared. The comparison offered her