“Motion picture producers recognize the high trust and confidence which have been placed in them by the people of the world and which have made motion pictures a universal form of entertainment.
“They recognize their responsibility to the public because of this trust and because entertainment and art are important influences in the life of a nation.
“Hence, though regarding motion pictures as entertainment without an explicit purpose for teaching or propaganda, they know that the motion picture within its own field of entertainment may be directly responsible
for spiritual or moral progress, for higher types of social life, and for much correct thinking.”
-- The Hollywood Motion Picture Code of 1930, written in somewhat of a panic to tell legislators, “Please do not regulate us.” But even then, they were not sincere about moral content creation, or moral self-governance.