Museum of Resistance and Resilience

Film Censorship:

In 1922, a number of film scandals involving actors prompted the creation of the Hays Office, a motion picture committee in charge of inserting moral clauses into actors’ contracts, which gave studios the authority to fire actors if they became entangled in any act that could offend public morals, as well as developing the Motion Picture Production Code, which prohibited any controversial film material that went against social values (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2009). This meant that the more liberal industry people in Hollywood needed to be discreet with any queer connotations or gender deviancy themes that they included in their films – "Morocco" (1930) was one of these films.

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