in 1934, the mpaa voluntarily passed the motion picture production code, more generally known as the hays code, largely to avoid government regulation. The code prohibited certain plotlines and imagery from films and in publicity materials produced by the mpaa. among other rules, there was to be no cleavage, no lace underthings, no drugs or drinking, no corpses, and no one shown getting away with a crime.
a.l. shafer, the head of photography at columbia, took a photo that intentionally incorporated all of the 10 banned items into one image.
the photograph was clandestinely passed around among photographers and publicists in hollywood as symbolic protest of the hays code.
Ther was one of these for “Batman: The Animated Series”, to, showing everything we weren’t allowed to show/do in an episode. Wonder if I can find a copy of that…
1: Is that Bette Davis? I looks like her. I dearly hope it is.
2: This looks like it could be a poster for a Quentin Tarantino film.
3: It makes me instantly want to watch the hypothetical movie this came from.
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