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===National Association of the Motion Picture Industry (NAMPI)===
The [[National Association of the Motion Picture Industry]] was an industry self-regulatory body created by the Hollywood studios in 1916 to answer demands for film censorship by states and municipalities.<ref name=Butters>Butters, Gerard R. ''Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966''. University of Missouri Press 2007, p. 149 {{ISBN| 978-0-8262-1749-3}}</ref> The Association devised "Thirteen Points", a list of subjects and storylines they promised to avoid. However, there was no method of enforcement if a studio film violated the Thirteen Points content restrictions,<ref>Butters, Gerard R. ''Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966''. University of Missouri Press 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-8262-1749-3}}, page 151</ref> and NAMPI proved ineffective.<ref>Doherty, Thomas Patrick. ''Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934''. New York: Columbia University Press 1999. p. 6 {{ISBN| 0-231-11094-4}}</ref>