Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introduction to the movie script of Orpheus, Jean Cocteau says, "in this film there is neither symbol nor thesis... It is a realistic film which, through the camera, puts into the work more truth than truth; that truth which Goethe contrasts to reality." As the title hints, the plot--if one can say there is one--draws from the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Cocteau, however, skillfully shrouds this legend with the story of a poet's struggle to become immortal...
Historic Decision. With scarcely a pause for breath, Harry Truman shattered the thought. He turned from his typed script and read hurriedly from a sheet on which he had written with a pen a historic paragraph...
Truman raced tonelessly through the concluding sentences of his prepared speech, snapped shut the leather notebook with his script and stepped back from the lectern. He came forward again when photographers summoned him and smiled, a little tightly. He turned to Bess Truman, who had risen, and drew her into range of the television cameras. His smile broadened, and he backed away again and, parting a curtain, left...
...writer helps them think up ideas, but the comics use only an outline for a script and make up most of the gags as they go along. They will earn about $150,000 apiece in 1952, but they insist that there is nothing difficult about their art. Explains Bob: "All we do is listen to the radio and watch...
Alfred Drake's direction is expert wherever the script allows, and the period set of a combination kitchen-parlor-bedroom by Sam Leve is authentic as well as colorful...