Exercise 24

1. Women showed their freedom by wearing shorter skirts.
   They can spend more money.
   They could make movies with prostitution, drugs, and other things like that.
2. It stood for the Motion Picture Production Code.
3. Words with sexual meanings and long kisses were banned.
   Two aspects of movies that were banned were sexual images and sexual language.
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6. The MPPDA was a self-regulating orgainziation in that it didn't want government rules, so they formed their own organization to control themselves.
7. Because it was a depression, people had many troubles and went to see movies to forget their problems. Also, movies were cheap, which made them affordable for people in bad economic times.