History of movie ratings
Movie ratings were first created in 1922. In 1930 William Hays became the president of MPDAA and created the Hays Code. Then in 1945 he retired and following the Supreme Court defending motion pictures in 1952, the First Amendment defended the company (Why). This followed Jack Valenti becoming president in 1966 and later a new system was created to rate movies in 1968. Ratings were: G, M (Later replaced by PG), R, and X. A panel of parents were created to rate these movies, these group of parents are in Classification and Ratings Association, CARA. They deem whether the movie is appropriate for certain people. In this system, parents are chosen to view a movie and view a movie and then rate the movie (About). Then they help describe what makes the movie a certain rating and what its content the movie mostly contains. In 1984 PG-13 ratings were created and later in 1990 X rated movies became NC-17 rated movies. Today movie ratings are still created by CARA and used to help people make decisions on whether a certain movie should be viewed or not. The MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America, is today led by Senator Chris Dodd.
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