House Hearing - Johnston Praises Motion Picture Code

House Hearing - Johnston Praises Motion Picture Code Woman chairing panel, committee; audience. MCU of male hands typing on stenographers key board. 01;23:30 MCU Eric Johnston (SOF): “Our production code is not a document that says you cannot film that; what it does say is ‘you can film that’ if you abide by basic standards of morality & decency. This is precisely what our system of self-regulation seeks to do. It preserves diversity, variety; it keeps the screen open for the treatment of any subject of life, of literature, of drama. But there is no place for governmental censorship in America. There is no human being that can tell in advance what the rest of Americans should see, or not see, read or not read, hear or not hear. Why not let the American people make up their own minds? That’s what we’ve done since we were a Nation. It works better than any other system that I know of; its the only doctrine that is worth living by. Public Relations; 1960; Motion Picture Production Board; Censorship; MPAA; Motion Picture Association of America; House of Representatives;