Codes of Ethics of the Motion Picture Industry

The following links provide access to the pledges/codes of morality and standards associated with the motion picture industry, past and present.

• Pledge of the Legion of Decency (Catholic)
  
  
• Motion Pictures Association of America Official Code Objectives, including "Motion Pictures Rating System" and "Standards for Production" (1968) can also be found at the Digital History website (Note: the Standards of Production were not implemented.)
  
  
• Code to Govern the Making of Talking, Synchronized and Silent Motion Pictures (The Hays Code) (also the same code, but also including the various versions, is described in detail at David P. Hayes website). This is the Production Code of the Production Code Administration of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America , formally adopted March 1930 and went into effect in July 1934