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Tara McNamara on The Hays Gaze, Mondays in July on TCM

Before there was G, PG and R, and definitely before PG-13, there was The Production Code. Willam H. Hays was hired by the studios collectively to create and administer a system of rules that would dictate appropriate film content, and the studios agreed to monitor themselves in an effort to avoid local censor boards making…

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