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A little wonder, every day

a photo that mocked the Production Code

Whitey Schafer’s 1940 satirical “Thou Shalt Not” image; published without copyright notice in Yank (1945), U.S. public domain; creator Whitey Schafer. Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thou_Shalt_Not_-_Whitey_Schafer_-_1940.jpg
projector in an abandoned theater; P.J.L Laurens; CC BY-SA 3.0; attribution “P.J.L Laurens / Wikimedia Commons”; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Movie_projector.JPG
projectionist at work, 1958; Marion S. Trikosko, U.S. News & World Report / Library of Congress; no known copyright restrictions per LoC; credit “Marion S. Trikosko, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress”. Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_working_with_a_projector_in_a_movie_theater_1958.jpg
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Whitey Schafer’s 1940 satirical “Thou Shalt Not” image; published without copyright notice in Yank (1945), U.S. public domain; creator Whitey Schafer. Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thou_Shalt_Not_-_Whitey_Schafer_-_1940.jpg

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In 1940, Hollywood photographer Whitey Schafer made the satirical image Thou Shalt Not, mocking the film industry’s censorship rules. It gathered things studio censors tried to keep out of official publicity photographs, including a dead man, alcohol, gambling and weapons. The image was not a 1930s Life photojournalism piece.