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religion, in all those phases of life where they can be of greatest use to mankind (i).
(i) SUBJECTS TO BE OMITTED FROM CINEMATOGRAPHIC FILMS PRODUCED BY MEMBERS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY.
Trade Practice Conference for the Motion Picture Industry. (Held at New York, October 10 to' 15, 1927. Formerly producers' Resolution n. 2). Resolved, That those things which are included in the following list shall not appear in pictures produced by the members of this association, irrespective of the manner in which they are treated :
1. Pointed profanity — by either title or lip — this includes the words 'God', 'Lord',. 'Jesus', 'Christ', (unless they be used reverently in connection with proper religious ceremonies),, 'hell', 'damn', 'Gawd', and every other profane and vulgar expression however it may be spelled
2. Any licentious or suggestive nudity, in fact or silhouette ; and any lecherous or licentious, notice thereof by other characters in the picture.
3. The illegal traffic in drugs.
4. Any inference of sex perversion.
5. White slavery.
6. Miscegenation (sex relationship between the white and black races).
7. Sex hygiene and venereal diseases .
8. Scenes of actual child-birth, in fact or in silhouette,,
9. Children's sex organs.
10. Ridicule of the clergy.
11. Willful offense to any nation, race, or creed : And be it further Resolved, that special care be exercised in the manner in which the following subjects are treated, to the end that vulgarity and suggestiveness may be eliminated and that good taste may be emphasized :
1. The use of the flag.
2. International relations (avoiding picturizing in an unfavourable light another country* religion, history, institutions, prominent people.
3. Arson.
4. The use of firearms.
5. Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings etc., (having in mind the effect which a too-detailed description of these may have upon the moron).
6. Brutality and possible gruesomeness.
7. Technique of committing murder by whatever method.
8. Methods of smuggling.
9. Third-degree methods.
10. Actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishment for crime.
11. Sympathy for criminals.
12. Attitude towards public characters and institutions.
13. Sedition.
14. Apparent cruelty to children and animals.
15. Branding of people or animals
16. The sale of women, or a woman selling her virtue.
17. Rape or attempted rape.
18. First night scenes.
19. Man and woman in bed together.
20. Deliberate seduction of girls.
21. The institution of marriage.
22. Surgical operations.
23. The use of drugs.
24. Titles of scenes having to do with the law enforcement or law-enforcing officers.
25. Excessive or lustful kissing, particularly when one character or the other is a 'heavy '» Resolved. That the execution of the purposes of this resolution is a fair trade practice.
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