Motion Picture Production Code

The youth of today is the society of tomorrow; raise them right, and the world will go on to be a better place. In order to do so, they must have a safe environment brought about by the suppression of ideas, words, or images that are generally considered offensive; this concept is most widely known as censorship and can be. Critically acclaimed, George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most popular examples of censorship taken too far. However, 1984 does make a few good points when it comes to what…

worth your time and energy. At first you may think the film was a war epic, perhaps it’s about torture, prisoners of war, and escapees, but I actually think there is more madness and also pride, codes, and patriotism aspects in this comedy. This film was done in the Golden Age of grand cinema productions. Everything was real, there were no animations, and no digital or special effects. Costumes were real, stunts were real, and locations and settings were real. Extras used during filming were…

The American Film industry, even in the 1940’s, was thought to be a progressive space full of liberal ideologies and access to diversity, but unfortunately, this was not the case for African Americans, especially pre-dating the Civil Rights Movement.“Classical Hollywood, in its role as America’s dream factory largely maintained the myth of Black inferiority while minimizing America’s long history of racial injustice.”African Americans were discriminated against in all areas of society, including…

Copyright infringement is an issue that has claimed attention in the struggle to maintain fair use of copyrighted works for over a decade. In North America alone, it was estimated that file sharing had grown by 44 percent, a percentage that was conjectured to shoot to 51 percent by 2019 . According to the magnitude of the problem, this paper seeks to explore the effects of the digital millennium copyright act of 1998. The article will discuss the five titles under digital millennium copyright…

Franklin and produced by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation. Having been released in 1922, Wong was seventeen at the time. In the film, she plays the character ‘Lotus Flower,’ a young Chinese woman who pursues an American man she finds unconscious in the sea, named Allen Carver. They quickly…

Katie Dunne 15395741 • How did the Good Neighbour Policy affect the representation of Hispanics in Hollywood? The Good Neighbour policy was outlined by President Franklin D Roosevelt in his Inauguration Speech on the 4th of March 1933. In this speech, he outlined that unilateral intervention in Latin American affairs was ruled out. It was a policy of non-intervention and non-interference in Latin American domestic affairs in accordance to the Monroe Doctrine. The main aim of the Good Neighbour…

Interestingly enough, there was a Motion Picture Production Code during that time which restricted Chaplin and forced him to remove scenes from the movie. As a result of that code, Chaplin couldn’t fully put out the message he really wanted. In 1952, Chaplin visited Europe for the premiere of his film 'Limelight' and was not allowed to return to the US.…

of workers in the workplace. Unimate, for example, took over the task of moving die castings and welding them, a task that was extremely dangerous for workers at the time (Hayward). Today, industrial robots are used in almost every aspect of mass production, which has led to drastically reduced prices in our increasingly consumer-focused society (Mickle). In 1962, America saw the invention of the first video game, known as Spacewar, thrusting video games into the limelight, which would have a…

The essence of her theory is “caring for the purpose of promoting healing, preserving dignity, and respecting the wholeness and interconnectedness of humanity.” (George, 2010) The four major components of Watson’s theory are the human being, health, environment/society and nursing. Watson embraces the view of the human being as “a valued person in and of him or herself to be cared for, respected, nurtured, understood and assisted; in general a philosophical view of a person as a fully…

Ocean Pollution: North Pacific Gyre filled with Plastic In 1997 a well-known chemist, scientific researcher and sea captain named Charles Moore, set sail from Hawaii back to his homeland, California after competing in a yacht race. Along the way, Captain Charles Moore had extra fuel to spare and decided to take a short cut through the low pressured winds of the north pacific gyre. As he and his crew reached the calm within the gyre, they were completely caught off guard as they noticed bits and…