" Today’s voluntary movie rating system is aimed at giving
parents the information they need to decide whether a film is appropriate for
their family.
The current rating system emerged in 1968, when MPAA
chairman Jack Valenti replaced the earlier moral censorship guidelines, known
as the Hays Code, with a revolutionary new parent-focused rating system. While
the Hays Code authorized a movie for distribution based on whether it was
deemed “moral” according to an exhaustive list of rules, the current movie
rating system was born out of the simple notion that the movie industry wouldn’t
approve or disapprove what audiences should see, but instead would focus on
“freeing the screen” and educating parents to help them make movie-going
decisions for their family. The current Classification & Ratings
Administration (CARA), with a rating board made up of an independent group of
parents, gives advance cautionary warnings to families about a movie’s content.
CARA’s mission is to afford parents the tools they need to make informed
decisions about what their children watch.
The introduction of the PG-13 rating in 1984 expanded the
scope of the rating system. Not intended to be tied to any specific age, the
rating is a stronger note of caution suggesting to parents to further
investigate the content of the motion picture before allowing their children to
see it.
Through these changes, our mission remains the same: to
inform parents about the content of the many great movies released every year.
In doing so, we hope to provide parents with a useful social service, while
allowing filmmakers to connect meaningfully with appropriate audiences." (Retrieved from http://www.mpaa.org/ratings/ratings-history)
The ratings in 1970:
Current Ratings according to the MPAA. (Retrieved from http://www.mpaa.org/Resources/e2f7189e-7316-4f71-9583-50aa4def53e3.pdf)
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