Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failings so similar to those whose troubles and difficulties he has here so deftly and sympathetically portrayed. And yet--Heaven and the author be thanked-there is none of that thick and cloying sentimentality which so often appears in play where tragedy underlies comedy, and of which motion picture scenario writers are such ardent devotees. No praying mothers, weeping sisters, or sons who fight their way back from the lowest depths of degradation for the love of a maid are here; but fine, whole-some men and women who are able to meet both fortune and the reverse with...
...Here, then, is he back again. Playing the Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman in scarlet coat and honor of pure white, he makes what is dubiously known among movie fans as a "romantic figure." Royal Northwesterners have by this time become just a trifle stereotyped. The first sentence in the Scenario Writer's Primer reads: " The Northwest Mounted Policeman always gets...
...Throw Back" a moving picture scenario written by a student in the University of California, has just been declared the winning manuscript in a competition for a $1000 Scholarship Award, offered six months ago by Carl Laemmle, President of the Universal Pictures Corporation to students of American Colleges for the motion picture scenario of the greatest merit. In announcing the award, Mr. Laemmle declared that "The Throw Back" had been selected from among some thousand scenarios by the committee of award because it was "the most original, the best written, and the most adapted to the requirements of the Universal...
Ruggles of Red Gap. Critical inquest into the reasons for this picture's being no better than it should be conclude with the finger of suspicion pointing at the scenario-writer. He had an oportunity to adapt what might have proved the best celluloid comedy of the year, but, unfortunately, he judged his own ability superior to that of the original author (Harry Leon Wilson). Out of the wreckage the cinema addict can salvage considerable amusement. If he happens to have read the story he will experience a great wave of pity for the vacant spaces inside the adapter...
...Ibsen takeoff; historical drama of various sorts; the Russian theatre (Old Style) full of knouts and beautiful Nihilists and (New Style) one of those realistic things in which all the characters suffer from acute hydrophobia and pass their time poisoning each other in underground lodgings; an ideal scenario for the modern movie of uplift that grips poor old marriage right by the neck; The Raft?the kind of interlude that is sandwiched in for 15 minutes between the dances at a revue; so they...