Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Somehow, Slitter's Gold was dropped and it was decided that I should do Broken Lullaby. But they said, 'You mustn't shoot any dead bodies in the picture.' Then I tackled-Dreiser's An American Tragedy. . . . The script I made for it had Dreiser's approval. . . . Hollywood wanted just a police story, so I said, 'Why the hell pay Dreiser? Just get some clippings...
Expert In Hammond, Ind., presenting a melodrama from radio station WAE, Roland G. Palmer, sound expert, made noises like galloping horses, howling wind, pattering rain. When the script called for a pistol shot, Sound Man Palmer picked up a pistol, shot off two of his fingers...
...Lost Squadron is the first picture manufactured by RKO since young David Selznick became production head of RKO-Radio and RKO-Pathe. It will be to the advantage of all concerned if the picture is typical of forthcoming RKO products. Good shot: a group of assistant directors, script writers, prop boys and cameramen waiting to start work, with Von Stroheim standing above them, on a pedestal beside the camera, bawling orders...
...Monsignor Turquetil learned to fish, shoot, trap, cook. He became an able air pilot, carpenter, blacksmith, mechanic. He mastered the Eskimo language, invented a typewriter upon which he typed hymnbooks, prayer-books, catechisms in Eskimo script. With other missionaries at Chesterfield Inlet he built a radio transmitter so that Eskimos may grunt at each other over the frigid air. Monsignor Turquetil, bearded nobly and baldheaded, is an able philologist. But chiefly he can gain converts by telling them how best to fish. Says he: "Taking fish out of the net is no easy job. If you take your hands...
Today at 9 Professor Rollins will talk in Emerson F upon the "Latter Day Pamphlets" of Carlyle bits of script which, quite frankly have escaped the Vagabond's attention...