Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate's first brush with the magic touch was provided by chunky John R. McFaden, a pressagent hired by the California Democratic Central Committee. Moved by the dramatic possibilities in Stevenson's scheduled visit to his birthplace on Los Angeles' Monmouth Avenue, McFaden wrote out a script for the occasion. The pressagent was particularly inspired by a vision of Stevenson marching up the walk to his childhood home. "This," read the script, "should be done with reasonable reverence in such a manner as to give cameramen a dramatic shot of a historical figure returning to the place...
Shortly before the visit, the Stevenson party learned from grinning newsmen of the existence of the McFaden drama. While the governor preserved a stony silence, one of his aides hurried out to Monmouth Avenue to inform McFaden that Stevenson wouldn't follow the script, and didn't want any glass of water. Half an hour later, Stevenson himself appeared, went through a scriptless visit...
...wrote his first script before he visited the valley, revised it when he returned from his tour. Three photographers were assigned to get pictures for the story. The views of the great plains and rivers, taken from the air by George Hunter, turned out so well that TIME decided to use only those...
Josephy went to work gathering material on the Missouri Valley preparatory to writing a shooting script for the photographers who would take the pictures. His first discovery was that there was no readily available source of information on the entire subject: all the land that is drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries, its agriculture and industries, the problems of the region, and what was being done about those problems...
Your Loving Friend. Eight months later, a letter came to Frank Hayostek back home in Johnstown, Pa. "I have found your bottle and note," the blue, slanting script told him. "I will just tell you the whole story. I live on a farm at the southwest coast of Ireland. On Friday, Aug. 23, 1946, I drove the cows to the fields beside the sea and then went for a walk on the strand called 'The Beal.' It is an inlet of Dingle...