Our film is going to be a hybrid between Film Noir and Horror, in order to retain most of the traditional Film Noir aspects I've decided to conduct research into the way film would've been regulated at the time Film Noir were most popular. Through this research I gained an insight on the cautions a director had in mind whilst directing their film back in the 50's.
This is a list of the “Don’ts” and “Be carefuls” introduced
through the Motion Picture Production Code:
1.
Pointed
profanity – by either title or lip – this includes the words "God,"
"Lord," "Jesus," "Christ" (unless they be used
reverently in connection with proper religious ceremonies), "hell,"
"damn," "Gawd," and every other profane and vulgar
expression however it may be spelled;
2.
Any
licentious or suggestive nudity – in fact or in silhouette; and any lecherous
or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the picture;
3.
The
illegal traffic in drugs;
4.
Any
inference of sex perversion;
5.
White
slavery;
6.
Miscegenation
(sex relationships between the white and black races);
7.
Sex
hygiene and venereal diseases;
8.
Scenes
of actual childbirth – in fact or in silhouette;
9.
Children's
sex organs;
10.
Ridicule
of the clergy;
11.
Willful
offense to any nation, race or creed;
This is a list
of things were to be shown with caution for suggestiveness and vulgarity:
1.
The
use of the flag;
2.
International
relations (avoiding picturizing in an unfavorable light another country's
religion, history, institutions, prominent people, and citizenry);
3.
Arson;
4.
The
use of firearms;
5.
Theft,
robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc.
(having in mind the effect which a too-detailed description of these may have
upon the moron);
6.
Brutality
and possible gruesomeness;
7.
Technique
of committing murder by whatever method;
8.
Methods
of smuggling;
9.
Third-degree
methods;
10.
Actual
hangings or electrocutions as legal punishment for crime;
11.
Sympathy
for criminals;
12.
Attitude
toward public characters and institutions;
13.
Sedition;
14.
Apparent
cruelty to children and animals;
15.
Branding
of people or animals;
16.
The
sale of women, or of a woman selling her virtue;
17.
Rape
or attempted rape;
18.
First-night
scenes;
19.
Man
and woman in bed together;
20.
Deliberate
seduction of girls;
21.
The
institution of marriage;
22.
Surgical
operations;
23.
The
use of drugs;
24.
Titles
or scenes having to do with law enforcement or law-enforcing officers;
25.
Excessive
or lustful kissing, particularly when one character or the other is a "heavy".
Information source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
Information source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
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