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In 1934 the MPAA voluntarily passed the Motion Picture Production Code, more generally known as the Hays Code, largely to avoid governmental regulation. The code prohibited certain plotlines and imagery from films and in publicity materials produced by the MPAA. Among others, there was to be no cleavage, no lace underthings, no drugs or drinking, no corpses, and no one shown getting away with a crime.

A.L. Shafer, the head of photography at Columbia, took a photo that intentionally incorporated all of the 10 banned items into one image.

The photograph was clandestinely passed around among photographers and publicists in Hollywood as a method of symbolic protest to the Hays Code.

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likestardust:

Doctor Who || Series Three

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faramirs:

Karen Gillan as Jean Shrimpton in We’ll Take Manhattan

Lady Clare: She .. apparently is beautiful.
Bailey: Yeah. She bloody is.

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porcelainivorysteel:

“King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air, and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.” 

Ser Barristan Selmy, a Storm of Swords

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“It’s five thousand dollars. That’s all there is. I want you to take it, and I want you to leave New York, and I don’t want to see or hear from you ever again.”

“That’s not what I wanted. That’s not right.”

“It’s all I can do for you.”

Mad Men 01x05 5G

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It’s in your nature. It’s what you are. You’re a killer, Sayid.

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fortysixandtwo:

“It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that’s the day I realized there was this entire life behind things, and.. this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video’s a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember.. and I need to remember. Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart’s going to cave in.”

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