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Before 1922
Early Trade Associations The MPPDA was not the industry's first trade association. In many respects, the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), which came into being in 1908, can be seen as the American film industry's first attempt at business self-regulation, while the National Board of...
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Will Hays and the 1920s
Will Hays and the MPPDA in the 1920s Will H. Hays had been Chairman of the Republican Party National Committee in 1920, and had organized Warren Harding's successful Presidential campaign. In 1921 he was Postmaster General in Harding's Cabinet, and industry leaders chose him for...
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1929 - 1932: Creating the Production Code
1929 - 1932: Creating the Production Code In the second half of 1929 the MPPDA was the subject of heavy criticism for reasons only tangentially connected to movie content. Its relationship with the federal government had been strained by a wave of mergers and...
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1932 - 1934: Hays, Breen and the PCA
1932 - 1934: Hays, Breen and the PCA In January 1932, Joseph Breen had arrived in Hollywood to oversee its publicity for the Association. His abrasive style constituted a significant shift away from Joy's attempts at consensus. In September Joy left to become...
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1934 - 1939: The Production Code in Operation
1934 - 1939: The Production Code in Operation By late 1934, there was clear evidence of a box-office recovery led by the neighborhood theatres and apparently responsive to the new production trends that elevated Shirley Temple to the pinnacle of box-office championship from 1934 to...
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History
Origins of the Flinders archive and the MPPDA From this page, you can find a history of the Archive and its development, as well as a brief history of the MPPDA, and a "Who's Who" and "What's What" of the most prominent people and...
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The Screen and Media Department
Screen and Media The Department of Screen and Media[http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/screen-and-media/] at Flinders University[http://www.flinders.edu.au/] offers Adelaide's largest and most diverse tertiary program in the study of audiovisual media. Our study and research programs include film, television, and digital technologies including games and 3D. Prospective students, if you are interested in...
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The Researchers
Chief Researchers for the MPPDA Digital Archive are *Professor Richard Maltby[[sitetree_link id=28]]* and *Dr Ruth Vasey*[[sitetree_link id=30]]. Richard is Professor of Screen Studies and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law[http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl] at Flinders University[http://www.flinders.edu.au/], South Australia and a leading international authority on the...
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Copyright
Please note that the use of this material is restricted to bona fide researchers at the discretion of the Flinders University Special Collections Librarian. Acknowledgement of the Flinders University Library Special Collections must be made in all publications using material from any of the manuscript...
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Disclaimer
It should be noted that the documents in the MPPDA’s General Correspondence files represent only a small fraction of the Association’s overall output. Whilst they represent a rich source of information about the political history of the industry and a number of its key...
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