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The Hollywood Censorship Wars
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 50min Synopsis: This documentary from A&E looks at the film industry's century-long battle with internal and external censorship. In order to head off religious and congressional demands for legislated national censorship, Hollywood instituted self-regulation in 1922 by hiring former postmaster general Will Hays to oversee the content of movies and theoretically insure a sufficiently high moral content. In 1930, under fresh pressures, Hays and the studios instituted the Motion Picture Production Code, which became ... Full Synopsis
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