Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screen Censors...
...Free Enterprise Society, however, has chosen neither of these courses; instead its officers have attempted to cover up their own responsibility by a smoke-screen of invective. For such a position we can have little respect...
John Huston (San Pietro, Let There Be Light), who wrote the screen play and directed the film, adapted it from a novel by Mexico's Mysterious Stranger, B. Traven. The story, ideal for movie purposes, is a sardonic, intensely realistic fable, masterfully disguised as an adventure story. It is a tale about three Americans of the mid-1920s, on the bum in Tampico. Running into modest luck in a lottery, they strike off into the depths of Mexico's mountains in search of gold...
...first Workshop guinea-pigs was Sterling North, who is probably the most widely syndicated of all U.S. book reviewers (24 newspapers). Five years ago he had written a pallid little juvenile called Midnight and Jeremiah, which Walt Disney was interested in screening. North rewrote the story into a screen version for Disney and a novel (So Dear to My Heart) for Doubleday. Disney had the story tested by Sindlinger and North obligingly made the Workshop-indicated alterations (which he says were minor). Since then the book has sold 25,000 copies. North was "genuinely converted," he said. "People who scoff...
Sindlinger, not content with mass testing, is also experimenting with mass writing by "established writers." One such established writer is Professor James (The Struggle for The World) Burnham of New York University. His first screen play is being "developed by Mr. Burnham and the editorial staff" of the Workshop, with the help of what Sterling North calls the "collective wisdom of the American people...