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Jesuit priest-Father Daniel A. Lord SJ, drafted the 1930 Hollywood Production Code!
A very intriguing fact that many researchers are unaware off, is that the 1930 Hollywood Production Code was drafted by a Jesuit--Daniel A. Lord S.J.. This code is known as the Hays Code,

named after Papal agent, "Episcopalian" Will H. Hays
who was from 1922–1945, the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA).
{further reading : The Memoirs of Will H. Hays (1955), Will H. Hays
PDF File: https://ia800705.us.archive.org/2/items/memoirs00hays_201901/memoirs00hays.pdf

$named after Papal agent, "Episcopalian" Will H. Hayswho was from 1922–1945, the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA).{further reading : The Memoirs of Will H. Hays (1955), Will H. Hays PDF File: https://ia800705.us.archive.org/2/items/memoirs00hays_201901/memoirs00hays.pdf$

here is a incredible amount of disinformation on the internet claiming that the Jews control Hollywood and it is completely baseless. I encourage the reader to read The Jesuit Contribution to the Theatre , Henry Schnitzler, Educational Theatre Journal Vol. 4, No. 4 (Dec., 1952),

The Jesuit Contribution To The Theater, Henry Schnitzler, John Hopkins University Press, Educational Theatre Journal, Volume 4 Issue 4 (1952)

PDF File: https://ia800708.us.archive.org/5/items/EducationalTheatreJournalVolume4Issue41952doi10.23072F3204009HenrySchnitzlerTheJ/Educational%20Theatre%20Journal%20Volume%204%20issue%204%201952%20%5Bdoi%2010.2307%252F3204009%5D%20Henry%20Schnitzler%20--%20The%20Jesuit%20Contribution%20to%20the%20Theatre.pdf

pp. 283-292 , an academic journal that goes into the history of how the modern stage theater and motion pictures originate with the Society of Jesus--Jesuits.

Here is the cover of the 1930 Hollywood Production Code

you can read the code here, as published on March 31st 1930 : https://www.asu.edu/courses/fms200s/total-readings/MotionPictureProductionCode.pdf

Under the section titled Religion is stated : "Ministers of Religion in their character as such, should not be used as comic characters or as villains."

"Jesuit priest Father Daniel A. Lord, was helped by his brother Jesuit , Father FitzGeorge Dinneen S.J. in drafting the code, in addition to Jesuit trained Papal Knight Martin Quigley, who was the owner of the Hollywood trade journal Motion Picture Herald...

from "Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies, Gregory D. Black, pg.36
pdf file: https://books.google.ca/books?id=ybKqnNNR7hwC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=Fr.+Fitzgeorge+Dinneen,+SJ&source=bl&ots=qySKPk4-Ue&sig=d32-1fGQvLvkT4z7kJ8cijVL_Xs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjziJamuYXeAhUl74MKHRRkCAsQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=true

" Reverend Fitz George Dineen, SJ joined the parish in 1924. Under his guidance a rectory attached to the church, gymnasium, a new school for boys was built, and a pipe organ designed by Stephen Erst was installed "
PDF File: https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/archives/pdfs/stignatiusparish.pdf

Daniel A. Lord S.J. , the Jesuit of Hollywood, wrote about his secret authorship of the 1930 Hollywood Production Code in his autobiography titled Played by Ear : The autobiography of Daniel A. Lord S.J. (1956)
PDF File: https://ia801000.us.archive.org/5/items/playedbyear001277mbp_201908/playedbyear001277mbp.pdf

pg. 301/302: "Mr. Hays himself presided. Mr. Martin Quigley could feel that the moment was largely of his management. I came with the code in my hand, and instructions to take half an hour to present it as only the actual author of the written document could do...

pg. 303/304 :"My own connection with the code was kept almost unexplainably secret. It surprised me a little that none of the gossip columnists of the day made it a point.I was much relieved that bigotry got no chance to scorn the code because it was the product of a Jesuit..

pg. 297/298 :Father Dinneen suggested to his eminence that the time might be ripe for the industry to do its own censoring.Would his eminence propose this to Halsey Stuart and Company? He promptly did, and the bankers, relieved at the possibility of cleaning up the dirtiest..

Martin Quigley's New York Times obituary shows he close he was to political Catholicism , one his sons even became a Jesuit priest--John S. Quigley S.J. "Mr. Quigley held a number of papal decorations, including the Order of St. Gregory the Great and the medal of

the Knight of the Order of Malta, and he was a Knight of the Grand Cross He held honorary degrees from Loyola University of Los Angeles(Jesuit).
MARTIN QUIGLEY, WROTE FILM CODE; Co‐Author of Production Guide, a Publisher, Dies New york times May 5, 1964
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/05/archives/martin-quigley-wrote-film-code-coauthor-of-production-guide-a.html

To sum up the total Jesuit control, it was Jesuit educated, Papal Knight, devout Catholic Joseph Ignatius Breen who was the top censor of Hollywood after the production code was written by the Jesuit priest Daniel A. Lord S.J.. Breen was the head of the Production Code

Administration (PCA), the bureaucratic office which was assigned to levy penalties and fines on those films whose spiritual and temporal messages did not align with the morality layed out by Jesuit Priest Daniel A. Lord S.J. in the Hollywood production code.

Lord writes about his relationship to Breen in his autobiography (pg. 311/312). "Mr.Joseph I Breen was put in charge of this new and powerful department of the Hays office He brought to it high integrity, fine personal courage, a great belief in the value of the code for the..

Further reading---Thomas Doherty, Hollywood's Censor : Joseph I. Breen And The Production Code Administration, Columbia University Press ( 2007)
PDF File: https://ia800907.us.archive.org/32/items/ThomasDohertyHollywoodsCensorJosephI.BreenAndTheProductionCodeAdministrationColu/Thomas%20Doherty-Hollywood%27s%20Censor_%20Joseph%20I.%20Breen%20and%20the%20Production%20Code%20Administration-Columbia%20University%20Press%20%282007%29.pdf

pg. 14 : " Upon graduation from Catholic High in 1906, Breen followed the path of his brothers into the all-male classrooms of St. Joseph’s College, Philadelphia’s flagship Jesuit university...

pg. 21 : " As the Roaring Twenties reached cruising altitude, Breen had earned a seat in the front pews of American Catholicism—rubbing shoulders with an elite brethren of politicians, businessmen, and clerics, men who if not ordained Jesuits tended to be Jesuit-educated...

pg. 42 : " Figuring Breen knew the Jesuit psyche, Quigley asked him to arrange a meeting with Father Dinneen to consider an alternative plan of attack that would be more effective and principled,Quigley thought, than church boycotts, censor board fiats, or legislative action...

pg. 16 :"By the fall of 1919, he was employed “as a ‘feature writer,’ so called,” for “the big daily newspapers in New York.” Keeping up the Catholic connection, he also served as secretary to Father Edward Tivnan, president of Fordham University, like St. Joseph’s a Jesuit ...

pg. 17 : "Breen secured a position as European Representative at the Bureau of Immigration at the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC), a private relief agency and protean political action committee....

pg. 184 : "As Breen presided over the Code and prospered in Hollywood, he accrued the tributes due a prominent Catholic layman, including honorary degrees from Loyola University of Los Angeles{Jesuit} in 1937.....

In 1933, the Vatican also formed the "Legion of Decency" organization to exert even more control and censorship over Hollywood. A Jesuit Francis Xavier Talbot S.J. was the official chaplain to the Legion. Naturally, the Jesuit Daniel A. Lord S.J. would be involved as well

The Catholic Crusade Against the Movies, 1940-1975, Gregory D Black(1998)
PDF File: https://books.google.ca/books?id=KWGGRWY9_mcC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=francis+x+talbot+legion+of+decency&source=bl&ots=tyXhDK-CEr&sig=ACfU3U19XFfqM5xASVVwXRcFdfRwxRMIZQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFzpO0vvrnAhXvk60KHflFArEQ6AEwB3oECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Pg:18 " At the annual meeting of Catholic bishops in Washington in 1932, just one year before the Legion of Decency campaign against the movies was launched, the hierarchy adopted a resolution deploring the lack of "uplifting"...