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FILMINDIA
February 1940
3. Seduction or rape.
a. They should never be more than suggested, and only when essential for the plot, and even then never shown by explicit method.
b. They are never the proper subject for comedy.
4. Sex perversion or any inference of it is forbidden.
5. White slavery shall not be treated.
6. Miscegenation (sex relationships between the white and black races) is forbidden.
7. Sex hygiene and venereal diseases are not subjects for motion pictures.
8. Scenes of actual child birth, m fact or in silhouette, are never to be presented.
9. Children's sex organs are never to be exposed.
III. VULGARITY
The treatment of low, disgusting, unpleasant, though not necessarily evil, subjects should be subject always to the dictate of good taste
and a regard for the sensibilities of the audience.
IV. OBSCENITY
Obscenity in word, gesture, reference, song, joke, or by suggestion (even when likely to be understood only by part of the audience) is forbidden.
V. PROFANITY
Pointed profanity (this includes the words: God. Lord, Jesus, Christ —unless used reverently — Hell, S.O.B., Damn, Gawd), or every other profane or vulgar expression however used, is forbidden.
VI. COSTUME
1. Complete nudity is never permitted. This includes nudity in fact or in silhouette, or any lecherous or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the picture.
2. Undressing scenes should be avoided, and never used save where essential to the plot.
3. Indecent or undue exposure is forbidden.
4. Dancing costumes intended to permit undue exposure or indecent movements in the dance are forbidden.
They became friends, Lya Lees and Saburao Patel. Lya Lees is the Warner star who gave a splendid performance in "Confessions of a
Nazi Spy".
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VII. DANCES
1. Dances suggesting or representing sexual actions or indecent passion are forbidden.
2. Dances which emphasize indecent movements are to be regarded as obscene.
VIII. RELIGION
1. No film or episode may throw ridicule on any religious faith.
2. Ministers of religion in their character as ministers of religion should not be used as comic characters or as villains.
3. Ceremonies of any definite religion should be carefully and respectfully handled.
IX. LOCATIONS
The treatment of bedrooms must be governed by good taste and delicacy.
X. NATIONAL FEELINGS
1. The use of the flag shall be consistently respectful.
2. The history, institutions, prominent people and citizenry of other nations shall be represented fairly.
XI. TITLES
Salacious, indecent, or obscene titles shall not be used.
XII. REPELLENT SUBJECTS
The following subjects must be treated within the careful limits of good taste :
1. Actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishment for crime.
2. Third Degree methods.
3. Brutality and possible gruesomeness.
4. Branding of people or animals.
5. Apparent cruelty to children or animals.
6. The sale of women, or a woman selling her virtue.
7. Surgical operations.
SPECIAL REGULATIONS RECRIME IN MOTION PICTURES
RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Incorporated, hereby ratifies, approves, and confirms the interpretations of the Production Code and the practices thereunder, and the resolutions indicating and confirming such interpretations heretofore