Censoring the Movies — What was the “Hays Code”

These things were out of bounds on the big screen

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Movies are constantly pushing the envelope. They move, like a boat, on the sea of shifting cultural values and norms. At least, that is what I thought. At one point in history, there was an actual set of rules about what movies could and could not show (or even suggest).