National Association of the Motion Picture Industry

The National Association of the Motion Picture Industry (NAMPI) was an American film industry self-regulatory body created by the Hollywood studios in 1916 to answer demands for film censorship by states and municipalities.[1][2][3] The system consisted of a series of "Thirteen Points", a list of subjects and storylines they promised to avoid.[1] However, there was no method of enforcement if a studio film violated the Thirteen Points content restrictions.[4] The NAMPI tried to prevent New York from becoming the first state with its own film censorship board in 1921, but failed.[5] NAMPI was ineffective and was replaced when the studios hired Will H. Hays to oversee the film content restrictions in 1922.[6]

See also

Notes
  1. Ben Yagoda (February–March 1980). "HOLLYWOOD CLEANS UP ITS ACT". American Heritage Magazine. Vol. 31 no. 2. Archived from the original on 20 October 2006.
  2. "American film censorship". filmreference.com. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  3. Butters. p. 149
  4. Butters. p. 151.
  5. Black. p. 30
  6. Doherty. p. 6

References
  • Black, Gregory D. Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies. Cambridge University Press 1996 ISBN 0-521-56592-8
  • Butters, Gerard R. Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966. University of Missouri Press 2007 ISBN 978-0-8262-1749-3
  • Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934. New York: Columbia University Press 1999. ISBN 0-231-11094-4
  • Wittern-Keller, Laura. Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981. University Press of Kentucky 2008 ISBN 978-0-8131-2451-3


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