Taking_The_Sin_Out_Of_The_Cinema

Taking The Sin Out Of The Cinema Taking the Sin out of the Cinema Since its invention, the motion picture quickly paved its way into American society as an acceptable art form and a style of mass entertainment. The road it traveled, however, was not as smooth as its plots and not as easily concluded as the events in the lives of the characters in the films themselves. It was the era of the Great Depression and movie producers found it necessary to attract audiences with the lure of sexual themes and immoral topics on the screen. Additionally, production companies faced much opposition from various groups in society, many of their actions founded on the basis of scandals and undignified events happening in Hollywood. From the introduction of Will Hays as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) to the enforcement of the Production Code, the motion picture industry has struggled to appease its unvarying opposition; however, it has still managed to continue its success and to develop into a popular form of mass entertainment. The appointment of Will Hays as president of the MPPDA in 1922 prompted the moral restoration of a rapidly corrupted image of the motion picture industry. It was during a censorship, production, picture, motion, hays, industry, code, society, screen, movie, companies, while, producers, moral, states, one, much, hollywood, films, arbuckle, scandals, religious, office, mppda, however, groups, form, film, entertainment, both, against, within, way, studio