Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidates are trained by the production director, and the technical director. They are trained either for production or tech; a few have trained for both at once, with moderately good results. Tech candidates simply learn to handle controls; production candidates learn announcing and script-writing. Both types of candidates come up for "nights", when they watch the working of the station and the activities of experienced members. One high spot of the period is an appearance on a specially show, such as "Tommy Valentine's Day", for an interview; another, for the announcers, is announcing training consisting of reading...
...drama, the scripts have to be boiled down to less than one hour. The job is given to adapters who work under the supervision of Script Editor Mab Anderson, in private life the wife of Playwright Maxwell Anderson. But scripts are shown to the original authors before going on the air, and no deletions, changes or shifts of emphasis may be made without the playwrights' consent. Says Editor Anderson: "I would never change a play basically, its intention or meaning...
...reach for glamour should not be too difficult, said Anne, faithfully following her script, since the quality runs in the family: "My grandfather, [Architect] Frank Lloyd Wright, wore only a red sash on his wedding night. That's glamour...
...club simultaneously revealed that it had granted several extensions beyond yesterday's deadline for scripts for the show. The official closing of the script competition means that the Pudding will now begin searching for a professional director, producer, and a choreographer. These three will help in the selection of the winning script, to be announced some time...
...average Hollywood producer makes about two pictures a year, but last year Goldstein made 19. He runs his projects at Universal-International studios like a factory. He approves the basic script idea, buys the production tools, then lets his workmen bring out the product. Often he will give his writer the summary of an idea. Then, "We start tomorrow," he will say, pulling on his long cigar. "I'll see you at the preview...