The use of firearms should be restricted to the essentials.Arson must subject to the same safeguards.Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc., should not be detailed in method.Revenge in modern times shall not be justified.Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail. The technique of murder must be presented in a way that will not inspire imitation.Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it.The Fleischer Studios secretly fought back by putting in hidden sexual messages in their cartoons. The Hays Act cleaned up the media, censoring movies and cartoons. The Betty Boop cartoons were of an adult nature, and were not really for children, which is why the series was affected. Before the Hays Code, Betty Boop was a flapper girl who wore strapless short skirts, after the Code was imposed, Betty's dresses were made longer and her garter was hidden, not removed as falsely written in history, but hidden under her longer dresses. In 1933 a theater owner complained to Film Daily that there was too much smut in cartoons, which is also what contributed to animation being censored. It was first published in 1930, as an attempt to introduce film censorship. The Hays Code of 1934 was the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines. ( Betty Boop before and after the Motion Picture Production Code.)
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