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* Respect for the dead, and for the act of dying, generally meant that dead bodies were not shown, and gruesome deaths were never acted out on camera.

* Respect for the dead, and for the act of dying, generally meant that dead bodies were not shown, and gruesome deaths were never acted out on camera.

* Intoxicating liquor was not to be drunk unless such drinking was necessary to the plot. This was especially important when [[Prohibition]] was still in force, but was enforced less well afterward.

* Intoxicating liquor was not to be drunk unless such drinking was necessary to the plot. This was especially important when [[Prohibition]] was still in force, but was enforced less well afterward.

* Producers were not to hold any religion up to ridicule, or to cast disrespect on "the just rights, history, and feelings of any nation." One repeated practical application of this rule was that the face of [[Jesus|Christ]] was never shown in close-up, but only at a wide angle, if at all. Films like ''The Robe'' (1953)<ref name=Robe>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046247/ ''The Robe'' (1953)] at the Internet Movie Database</ref> and ''Ben-Hur'' (1959)<ref name=BenHur>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/ ''Ben-Hur''](1959) at the Internet Movie Database</ref> best illustrate this principle.

* Producers were not to hold any religion up to ridicule, or to cast disrespect on "the just rights, history, and feelings of any nation." One repeated practical application of this rule was that the face of [[Jesus|Christ]] was never shown in close-up, but only at a wide angle, if at all. Films like ''The Robe'' (1953)<ref name=Robe>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046247/ ''The Robe'' (1953)] at the Internet Movie Database</ref> and ''Ben-Hur'' (1959)<ref name=BenHur>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/ ''Ben-Hur'' (1959)] at the Internet Movie Database</ref> best illustrate this principle.

== Decline of the Code ==

== Decline of the Code ==