Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea is credited to Publisher Pascal Covici of Covici, Friede. Visiting Hollywood last summer he watched the filming of The Mighty Barnum with his good friend, Author Gene Fowler. Publisher Covici secured rights to print the script of The Mighty Barnum in book form. The producers. Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc., asked nothing but the publicity from simultaneous release of book and film. Author Fowler and Co-Author Bess Meredyth were to split 15% of the gross sales...
...Castle caught fire last September off the New Jersey coast, killed 134 people and ran aground, it also wrecked the libretto of Producer Vinton Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able U. S. showmen, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, to re-do the whole job in three weeks...
...chief change in the script is the insertion of the Sphinx on the stage to talk with the characters. Played by a young girl, she predicts the course of the action...
...Just as the automobile drove the less convenient horse and buggy off the street, as the steamship out-sailed the sailing ship, as the printed book displaced the handwritten manu script, so will radio outdo the slower, more expensive and cumbersome newspaper, as a distributor of news...
...Angeles Consul demanded changes, sent to Fox studios a censor who was won over, stayed to coach Fenton in Japanese mannerisms. The U. S. Navy demanded changes which would clear it of any appearance of negligence. The Government of Panama objected to the undignified manner in which the script portrayed Panamanian natives and the Canal Zone authorities protested against the presence of motion picture cameras in fortified zones. Arrangements satisfactory to all parties, however, were made in the script before production; no scenes had to be reshot...