Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrew K. Lewis, one of the frequent writers of the show and a Harvard grad, class of '49, was assigned to do the script. By the end of January, he had a preliminary outline done. Until three weeks ago, he constantly revised and tightened this up. The he started writing his final draft...
...Garroway's morning television show Today, it discovered that TIME was a ready source of authentic material. For a report on dysautonomia, a little known affliction, a symptom of which is weeping without tears, NBC used Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant's story (TIME, June 7, 1954) for script background. Later Today planned to review the treatment of mental ills with new drugs and learned the authoritative work was a booklet by Cant, based on the story Pills for the Mind (TIME, March...
...producers of Love Rides the Rails skillfully turned an essentially dull script into a quickly paced and delightful mix of color, off-hand humor, pleasant music and a good deal of unblemished verve. The show lags at times, and the lines are seldom inherently funny, but the very lack of slickness and pretension make the pauses suitable relief before what is expected and does arrive at the next moment...
Although the theme of the book is imaginative, author Morland Cary unfortunately does not come up with ample funny dialogue. But where the script fails, director James Paul has not, for he exploits each situation for every laugh possible...
...infinite complications that develop when they try to cover the misfortune, which they figure is best done by earthing old Harry on top of the hill, are inevitable. The script Hitchcock uses is in the manner of a very garrulous Noel Coward, lacking a great deal of the sponteneity and verve which make salon situation humor tolerable. Funny verbal exchanges might have saved the endless repetition of burying Harry, digging him up, and then burying him again. Poor cold Harry must not have been amused...