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1. Motion Picture Production Code

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   Prohibitions (The Negative Mandates)
   The Prohibitions were extensive and covered areas that could potentially cause audiences to question the inherent virtue of the American Way of Life. One notable, and frequently debated, prohibition concerned the depiction of adultery. While adultery was forbidden outright, the Code permitted the implication of extramarital affairs, provided the illicit nature was visually conveyed using only shadows cast at an angle less than $17^\circ$ from the horizontal plane, a measurement enforced by PCA script supervisors train…