Word: scenarioed
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...called from work on his message to Congress to act in the movies. The Highway Educational Board is producing a picture as propaganda for "better roads." Henry Ford is understood to be the financial backer of the enterprise. The Washington correspondent of the Public Ledger (Philadelphia) reported the scenario as follows...
Aimid the various competitions for peace prizes and other prizes of a supposedly benevolent nature, we are rather startled at subject of a prize competition just announced by the Cosmopolis Press of New York. This organization will give a thousand dollars for the best play, motion picture scenario or short story adaptable into a play or scenario "on the American jail as a force in the creation of criminals and the fostering of crime" The judges of the contest will include Ludwig Lewisohn,-author and an editor of the Nation; Minnie Madern Fiske, well known actress; Carl Van Doren, literary...
...worse than they knew last year at the polls when they defeated moving picture censorship, not for themselves, but for their children's children. For with a board of censors, some great director might be rushed in at the last moment to correct the work of a loose-minded scenario writer. And so poring, five hundred years hence, over dusty celluloid strips, the student might come suddenly upon a treasure a bit of dialogue by Ince, or an art title in the hand of D. W. Griffith...
...failings so similar to those whose troubles and difficulties he has here so deftly and sympathetically portrayed. And yet--Heaven and the author be thanked-there is none of that thick and cloying sentimentality which so often appears in play where tragedy underlies comedy, and of which motion picture scenario writers are such ardent devotees. No praying mothers, weeping sisters, or sons who fight their way back from the lowest depths of degradation for the love of a maid are here; but fine, whole-some men and women who are able to meet both fortune and the reverse with...
...Here, then, is he back again. Playing the Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman in scarlet coat and honor of pure white, he makes what is dubiously known among movie fans as a "romantic figure." Royal Northwesterners have by this time become just a trifle stereotyped. The first sentence in the Scenario Writer's Primer reads: " The Northwest Mounted Policeman always gets...