Motion pictures made in the United States are, with few exceptions, produced in accordance

with the provisions of a production code.

A majority of the foreign pictures exhibited in theaters here likewise conform to these self-imposed

industry rules and regulations.

All the major producing and distributing companies in the United States, and 99% of the others, work with and through the Production Code Administration.

Very few of the producers of English Dialogue Motion pictures, now being publicly exhibited in theaters

in the United States, fail to make use of the facilities of the Code Administration.

This service is rendered and this work conducted on a purely voluntary basis.

No one is compelled to produce motion pictures in accordance with the code regulations.

No attempt is made to force producers to accept the service of the production code administration.

As a result, however, of almost 15 years of day-by-day operations, during which time more than 6,000 feature-length

motion pictures and twice as many short-subject films have been serviced by the Code Administration,

there is evidence on all sides, a ready disposition to conform to the regulations of the code and to be guided in large measure

by the judgment and experience of its administrators.

This effort to establish high principles of public responsibility for an art industry

has been singularly difficult and significant. Because of the newness,

nature, and variety of this remarkable medium of expression, which draws its raw material

from all of drama, all of music, all of literature, and all of life. And because of the worldwide

character of a consumer audience represented by an average of more than

85 million admissions a week in the United States, and in normal times, an additional

estimated 150 million weekly in the rest of the world.

Industrial democracy can no longer be taken for granted.

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