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We'd be better off if this ....

Red Robin

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....was in force today.

United States Motion Picture Production Code 1930

Provisions of the Code

The Production Code enumerated three "General Principles" As Follows:

1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
2. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
3. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.

Specific restrictions were spelled out as "Particular Applications" of these principles:

* Nudity and suggestive dances were prohibited.
* The ridicule of religion was forbidden, and ministers of religion were not to be represented as comic characters or villains.
* The depiction of illegal drug use was forbidden, as well as the use of liquor, "when not required by the plot or for proper characterization."
* Methods of crime (e.g. safe-cracking, arson, smuggling) were not to be explicitly presented.
* References to alleged "sex perversion" (such as homosexuality) and venereal disease were forbidden, as were depictions of childbirth.
* The language section banned various words and phrases that were considered to be offensive.
* Murder scenes had to be filmed in a way that would discourage imitations in real life, and brutal killings could not be shown in detail. "Revenge in modern times" was not to be justified.
* The sanctity of marriage and the home had to be upheld. "Pictures shall not imply that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing." Adultery and illicit sex, although recognized as sometimes necessary to the plot, could not be explicit or justified and were not supposed to be presented as an attractive option.
* Portrayals of miscegenation were forbidden.
* "Scenes of Passion" were not to be introduced when not essential to the plot. "Excessive and lustful kissing" was to be avoided, along with any other treatment that might "stimulate the lower and baser element."
* The flag of the United States was to be treated respectfully, and the people and history of other nations were to be presented "fairly."
* The treatment of "Vulgarity," defined as "low, disgusting, unpleasant, though not necessarily evil, subjects" must be "subject to the dictates of good taste." Capital punishment, "third-degree methods," cruelty to children and animals, prostitution and surgical operations were to be handled with similar sensitivity.
 
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Red Robin wrote:
....was in force today.

* Portrayals of miscegenation were forbidden.


mis·ceg·e·na·tion (mĭ-sěj'ə-nā'shən, mĭs'ĭ-jə-) Pronunciation Key
n.
The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds.
Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races.
A mixture or hybridization: "There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule" (Don McLeese).

Not being from the south- I had to look up the definition....I guess this means all my part Sioux and Assiniboine relatives shouldn't exist :shock: :roll: :(
 

kolanuraven

Well-known member
Oldtimer said:
Red Robin wrote:
....was in force today.

* Portrayals of miscegenation were forbidden.


mis·ceg·e·na·tion (mĭ-sěj'ə-nā'shən, mĭs'ĭ-jə-) Pronunciation Key
n.
The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds.
Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races.
A mixture or hybridization: "There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule" (Don McLeese).

Not being from the south- I had to look up the definition....I guess this means all my part Sioux and Assiniboine relatives shouldn't exist :shock: :roll: :(



Funny thing is that would wipe out most of the inhabitants of the South and probably a bunch of RR's kin folks also!!!

It'd take out a chunk of mine and me with it!!!

We're a friendly people down here!!! :wink: :wink: :wink:
 

Mike

Well-known member
Oldtimer said:
Red Robin wrote:
....was in force today.

* Portrayals of miscegenation were forbidden.


mis·ceg·e·na·tion (mĭ-sěj'ə-nā'shən, mĭs'ĭ-jə-) Pronunciation Key
n.
The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds.
Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races.
A mixture or hybridization: "There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule" (Don McLeese).

Not being from the south- I had to look up the definition....I guess this means all my part Sioux and Assiniboine relatives shouldn't exist :shock: :roll: :(

Only in the movies. :roll:
 

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