Wid's year book (1921)

Maternity scenes, women in labor. Infidelity on part of husband justifying adultery on part of wife. Sacrifice of woman's honor held as laudable. Justification af the deliberate adoption of a life of immorality. Disorderly houses. Use of opium and other habit-forming drugs (instructive details). Counterfeiting. White slave stories. Drugging and chloroforming victims for criminal purposes. Gruesome murders, actual stabbing and shooting of persons. Seductions and attempted seductions treated without due restraint. Burning and branding of persons. Profanity in titles. Salacious titles and captions. Advocacy of the doctrine of free love. Scenes indicating that a criminal assault has been perpetrated on a woman. Suicide compacts, suicide scenes. Executions, lynchings and burlesques of hangings. Deeds of violence, lighting and throwing bombs, arson, especially to conceal crimes, train wrecking. Modus operandi of criminals. Birth control, malpractice. Suggestions of incest. Morbid presentations of insanity. Prolonged and harrowing death scenes. Venereal disease inherited or acquired. Irreverent treatment of religious observances and beliefs. Inflammatory scenes and titles calculated to stir up racial hatred or antagonistic relations between labor and capital. Kansas State Board of Review Standards, Old City Hall, Kansas City, Kan. Pictures should be clean and wholesome, whether for entertainment or amusement, and all features that tend to debase morals or influence the mind to improper conduct should be eliminated. No comedy which ridicules any religious sect or peculiar characteristics of any race of people should be shown. The dress of comedy characters must be condemned when used for evil suggestion. Infidelity to marriage ties must be condemned. A display of nude human figures must not be shown. Bar-room scenes, with drinking, gambling and loose conduct between men and women, should be eliminated when possible, and at all times should be abbreviated, as also social drinking and cigarette smoking. Crimes and deeds of violence, with an undue use of guns, revolvers and knives, and criminal methods, such as give instruction in the committing of crime through suggestions, should be eliminated or abbreviated. Prolonged and passionate love scenes, when suggestive of immorality, will not be allowed. Prolonged scenes of roadhouses. dance halls and houses of ill-fame must be eliminated. Vulgar and suggestive dances by semi-nude dancers, especially those of the underworld, must not be permitted. Pictures having for their theme white slavery and the allurement and betrayal of innocence will not be approved. Police Standards of District of Columbia Moving pictures are forbidden : In which sex relations are shown or depicted in a manner tending to the corruption of morals. Or which are based upon white slavery or procurement of women. Which depict nude persons, except children, or persons so nearly so as to shock ordinary sensibilities. Which show undue demonstrations of passionate love or scenes of vice. Which use titles and subtitles containing salacious suggestions or use in connection therewith advertising matter, photographs or lithographs of this character. Pennsylvania Standards The board will condemn pictures, and parts of pictures, dealing with "white slavery." The procuralion and prostitution in all forms of girls, and their confinement for immoral purposes, may not be shown upon the screen, and will be disapproved. Views of prostitutes and houses of illfame will be disapproved. Pictures and parts of pictures which deal with the seduction of women, particularly the betrayal of young girls, and assaults upon women, with immoral intent, will be disapproved. Prenatal and childbed scenes and subtitles describing them will be disapproved. Pictures and parts of pictures dealing with the drug habit, e. g., the use of opium, morphine, cocaine, etc., will be disapproved. Scenes showing the modus operandi of criminals, which are suggestive and incite to evil action, such as murder, poisoning, house-breaking, safe-robbery, pocket-picking, the lighting and throwing of bombs, the use ofg ether, chloroform, etc., will be disapproved. Gruesome and unduly distressing scenes will be disapproved. These include shooting, stabbing, profuse bleeding, prolonged views of men dying, and of corpses, lashing and whipping, and other torture scenes, hangings, lynchings, electrocutions, surgical operation^ and views of persons in delirium or insane. Studio and other scenes, in which the human form is shown in the nude, or the body is unduly exposed, will be disapproved. Pictures and parts of pictures dealing with abortion and malpractice will be disapproved. These will include themes and incidents having to do with eugenics, "birth control," "race suicide" and similar subjects. Stories or scenes holding up to ridicule and reproach races, classes or other social groups, as well as the irreverent and sacrilegious treatment of religious bodies or other things held to be sacred, will be disapproved. The materialization of the figure of Christ may be disapproved. Pictures which deal with counterfeiting will be disapproved. Scenes showing men and women living together without marriage, and in adultery, will be disapproved. Discussion of the question of the consummation of marriage, in pictures, will be disapproved. The brutal treatment of children and of animals may lead to the disapproval of the theme, or of incidents in film stories. The use of profane and objectionable language in subtitles will be disapproved. Objectionable titles, as well as subtitles of pictures, will be disapproved. View's of incendiarism, burning, wrecking and the destruction of property, which may put like action into the minds of those of evil instincts, or may degrade the morals of the young, will be disapproved. Gross and offensive drunkenness, especially if women have a part in the scenes, will be disapproved. Pictures which deal at length with gun play, and the use of knives, and are set in the underworld, will be disapproved. When the whole theme is crime, unrelieved by other scenes, the film will be disapproved. Prolonged fighting scenes will be shortened and brutal fights will be wholly disapproved. Vulgarities of a gross kind, such as often appear in slapstick and other screen comedies, will be disapproved. Comedy which burlesques morgues, funerals, hospitals, insane asylums, the lying-in of \^pmen and houses of ill-fame will be disapproved. Sensual kissing and love-making scenes, men and women in bed together and indelicate sexual situations, whether in comedies or pictures of other classes, will be disapproved. Bathing scenes which pass the limits of propriety, lewd and immodest dancing, the needless exhibition of wome» in their night dresses or underclothing, will be disapproved. Views of women smoking will not be disapproved as such, but when women are shown in