Word: scenarioed
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There has been a tendency among certain authors to produce plays and novels with a particular view toward their ultimate adoption as material for motion picture production. Mr. Gilkyson's novel unquestionably has the situation and characters most suitable for use in scenario form. The Freemonts are the people concerned. Martin Freemont is a successful young lawer about to begin a political career which is to see him chosen as the Republican candidate for Congress. His wife is the daughter, oddly enough, of a woman whose selection by the Democratic party as candidate to oppose Martin Freemont complicates the novelist...
Once upon a time a very brilliant young men or woman wrote a scenario on the life of human beings who were cooped up in a very interesting sort of existence, i.e. backstage momentum. Tap dancers, squawky voices, the show must go on; songs and pasty-faced adolescents, the show must go on; it must...
Were it not for the clever direction of Lowell Sherman and professional acting by the cast, I should throw up my hands and shout at the scenario writers in Hollywood and ask you to help show the overconfident, overstuffed producers that you are nauseated with their slop by staying away from "Broadway Through A Keyhole." But hysterical ranting is ineffective, and we should be thankful that the rank reality of pedicular dialogue is obviated by some delightful touches by Mr. Sherman...
...Hollywood confreres. When Eisenstein returned to Russia without finishing Que Viva Mexico! Upton Sinclair sold the distribution rights to Hollywood Producer Sol Lesser. Controversies started as soon as Producer Lesser revealed his plan for cutting Que Viva Mexico! Upton Sinclair insisted that the cutting followed Eisenstein's original scenario. Critics who had talked to Eisenstein about the picture accused Sinclair of "butchering" the film. They insisted that Eisenstein's original 243,000 ft. contained the material for a cinematic
...Hersey is particularly well informed about the profession of creating literature, notably of scenario writing. Primary sources in the art of converting novels into plays, and plays into movies he has acquired in quantity from Hollywood, and uses them to illustrate subtleties in transition which give his listeners a unique insight into the technique of dramatic production both in the cinema and on the legitimate stage. His knowledge in this department is extremely up-to-date, especially in the matter of modern stage sets...