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A Hays Office seal decided what cinemas could book

Films without approval struggled to find screens in the 1930s The Production Code Administration, set up inside the industry rather than by government, reviewed scripts and finished films and issued a numbered certificate. Major cinema chains would not book a picture without one, and a fine followed unauthorised releases. The system kept censorship internal until the courts and audiences pushed it aside. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Films without approval struggled to find screens in the 1930s. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.