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Part One: How Hollywood Helped The Nazis

Behind the Bastards

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Why Do You Think Arbuckle Was Innocent?

In 1930 the MPAA adopted the production code which is more commonly known as the Hayes code. And it basically laid out all the things you couldn't do in movies. The head of the MPAA at first is a guy named William Hayes who was a former postmaster general. One of Hayes's first acts was to ban Fatty Arbuckle from ever appearing in another movie. Now that ban was reversed eight months later but it was too- this is the end of Fatty’s career is like a big star. And this is also a time where like people are shocked at the idea of a woman having sex with someone who isn't her husband. Like so this is shocking

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