Will Hays's New Rival.

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  • Author(s): McDonald, John
  • Source:
    Nation. 4/3/1943, Vol. 156 Issue 14, p484-486. 3p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      WAR; MOTION pictures; HAYS, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954; MELLETT, Lowell; MOTION picture industry
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      The U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) wants to look films over before the public sees them. Almost all movies have in the past been reviewed and altered by the Production Code Administration of the Will Hays' Office. The OWI proposes to subject them to a second review. When Lowell Mellett, chief of the OWI Bureau of Motion Pictures, went to Hollywood a short time ago to make final arrangements, he said that all major studios had agreed to this review. When he returned, neither he nor the industry would make any comment, but it appeared that no general agreement had been reached, and that the issue had opened a major controversy concerning the relation of films to the government.