FYC: BANNED & CENSORED 'TOONS IN AMERICA

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: BANNED & CENSORED ’TOONS IN AMERICA is a work in progress.

Through banning and censorship of propoganda and stereotypes, the Hayes Office (7/1/1930) decided to make the screens safe for America in the ’30’s and ’40’s… among the general principles of the code was the requirement that “no picture shall be produced which will lower the standards of those that will see it. Hence the sympathy or the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin”… the specific regulations included the following typical examples:

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