Tuesday, March 06, 2007
The Hayes Office And Hollywood Cartoon Censorship
Table of Malcontents | WIRED Blogs: "There is an absolutely fascinating series of scans over at Cartoon Brew of an article from Look Magazine in 1939 in which the Leo Schlesinger studio over at Warner Bros. explains how the Hayes Code impacted their cartoons."
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I knew a lot about post-production censorship (the Censored Eleven, for example, which are all banned because of racist representations) but it is surprising that there were such strict guidelines for the production of animation. I wonder if animation was held to the same standards as films, or if the codes are completely different. The banning of war related cartoons is also interesting. I didn't know that the overseas market was such a big concern.
Also, I believe the correct spelling is Hays Code, after William Hays, head of the MPPDA.
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