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* Vulgar, disgusting subjects had to be handled in a manner not likely to nauseate the audience.

* Vulgar, disgusting subjects had to be handled in a manner not likely to nauseate the audience.

* 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. Actually, [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]] was no longer in force by the time the code came into effect, and so this provision was more honored in the breach than otherwise. Nevertheless, the PCA never passed a project that ''celebrated'' alcohol intoxication.

* 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.