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Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten stories of Hollywood's first century.

I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment in our ongoing series, Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon.

The great films of the silent years.

This isn't news. This is totally unfounded gossip.

It's a long way from Hollywood. Criticized for dealing too frightfully with such themes as sex and nudity.

Hollywood Babylon.

The result of all of the scandals that we've been discussing over the last five weeks was the establishment of what would eventually be called the production code administration, a body of sensors who vetted every film produced in Hollywood or with nationwide distribution ambitions between 1934 and the mid-1960s.

The code by which these sensors evaluated finished films became known as the Hayes Code, named after Will H Hayes, the so-called Movies R, who had been hired in early 1923 to help the industry get back on its feet after loads of post-scandal bad press.

Let's turn it over to this week's special guest, Reading from Hollywood Babylon.

Though Mabel Norman and Mary Miles Mintor stood out as the principal scapegoats in the William Desmond Taylor case, all of Hollywood felt the heat.

Howells went up around the country at this new proof of film land depravity 1922 was a rough year for the movie industry.

Stacks of uncomplimentary press notices continued to pour in denunciations rang out from the pulpits, who was not to vine wrath the magnets feared, but retaliation at the box office.

The Spectre of Collective Boycott by Women's Clubs Church Organizations and Anti-Vice Committees seemed formidable.

With the professional Puritans clamoring for a cleanup, something had to be done to improve the movie's image, fast.

The plush $100,000 year job of movies are, as offered to a prim-faced, bad-eared, millymouthed political chiseler, Will H Hayes, a member of President Harding's unfortunate cabinet,

who was chairman of the Republican National Committee, had tilted the nomination to Harding.

This Hoosier Presbyterian elder, who was also a member of the Mason's Knights of Pithius, Kiwanians, Rotarians, Moose, and Elks, seemed just right to give the purety league satisfaction.

As Hayes intoned, the founding fathers of film land broke out in shitting grins, and Heads Bob D'Agriment for the cameras.

Politics had taught Hayes all he needed to know about hypocrisy.

The Hayes office issued its first Dictat. Films were to be purified.

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