No Motion Picture Production Code

Let's say the motion picture production codes never happens. Maybe someone publicly exposes Catholic involvement in it and greatly play up anti-Catholic feelings to prevent people from approving it. "Papalist are trying to take over Hollywood and spread their propaganda" is what some papers could report. Maybe also use this as a excuse to turn public opinion against censorship of film. How would film, tv, and Hollywood develop without these codes? What would be public reaction to some films be? I could see censorship being mostly restricted to local areas or states but not nationally. Also censorship enforcement would stay inconsistent even within local areas and states.
 
In the absence of a national code, we might see several independent means of rating films. Some of these might be independent agencies. Others might be columns in newspapers or magazines, particularly those affiliated with various religious bodies. (The latter could be found in our own time line, serving as a supplement to the national code.)

The proliferation of rating agencies might lead to the practice of issuing several "cuts" of each film, with each version designed to appeal to a given rating agency. This, in turn, might lead a situation familiar to people who live in "dry counties" in the US, with people crossing local borders in order to see the less-restricted versions of particular films.
 
In the absence of a national code, we might see several independent means of rating films. Some of these might be independent agencies. Others might be columns in newspapers or magazines, particularly those affiliated with various religious bodies. (The latter could be found in our own time line, serving as a supplement to the national code.)

The proliferation of rating agencies might lead to the practice of issuing several "cuts" of each film, with each version designed to appeal to a given rating agency. This, in turn, might lead a situation familiar to people who live in "dry counties" in the US, with people crossing local borders in order to see the less-restricted versions of particular films.
It would be interesting to see early movies and cartoons that aren't restricted in anyway. Would the Walter Brothers make more mature content especially relating to animation?
 
You mean the Warner Brothers?

It's a pretty fair bet the Catholic Legion of Decency would go a good distance toward filling the void. Couple that with an extended version of the New England Watch and Ward Society (those who banned books in Boston IOTL) and that pretty well covers it.
 
You mean the Warner Brothers?

It's a pretty fair bet the Catholic Legion of Decency would go a good distance toward filling the void. Couple that with an extended version of the New England Watch and Ward Society (those who banned books in Boston IOTL) and that pretty well covers it.
Couldn't someone play up anti Catholic feeling among of the general population of the time to avoid this? I imagine many non-Catholic Americans on both the left and right can easily buy into that. And I did mean Warner Brothers.
 
In the absence of a national code, we might see several independent means of rating films. Some of these might be independent agencies. Others might be columns in newspapers or magazines, particularly those affiliated with various religious bodies. (The latter could be found in our own time line, serving as a supplement to the national code.)

The proliferation of rating agencies might lead to the practice of issuing several "cuts" of each film, with each version designed to appeal to a given rating agency. This, in turn, might lead a situation familiar to people who live in "dry counties" in the US, with people crossing local borders in order to see the less-restricted versions of particular films.
Do you think this could cause more diversity within the US on things like what's acceptable to wear to the beach?
 
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