Palmer plan handbook : volume one : an elementary treatise on the theory and practice of photoplay scenario writing (1922)

Record Details:

Title:
Palmer plan handbook : volume one : an elementary treatise on the theory and practice of photoplay scenario writing
Date:
1922
Publisher:
Hollywood : Palmer Photoplay Corporation
Volume:
Palmer plan handbook : volume one : an elementary treatise on the theory and practice of photoplay scenario writing
Leaf #:
00042
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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aside for awhile. Read it again after a few days and you will be able to see its weakness. This is the method pursued by writers of experience. Dramatic appeal is influenced by plot development. THE LOVE ELEMENT Dramatic material to have interest must offer story and plot value. First of all it must embrace a love story. It must make an emotional appeal. Love is the impelling force back of all creative effort. It has been the inspiration back of the whole Drama of Life. It is the force which has been back of all civilization, of the humanizing of mankind. It has been the force working through all of our social fabric, bringing mankind closer together, first in the family, then in the tribe, then in the nation. Out of love have grown all of our words of social relationship — father, mother, brother, sister, sweetheart, wife, son, daughter and friend. These words all stand for some share of love's expression. The great demand of the human heart is for love. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "The body is a house of many windows; there we sit showing ourselves and crying out to the passerby to come and love us." Because of this demand of the human heart we are always living over, in books, dramas, pictures, and even in newspapers, the love affairs of others. So the love story is the very life of your photoplay, its breath, its power of existence. The love of a man for a woman makes a never failing appeal. But this is not the only love. The love of a mother or a father for a son or a daughter makes strong dramatic material. This has been shown in the big success of "Over the Hill" and "The Old Nest." Then there is the big sacrificial love of a strong friendship and the charm of the love that exists between a child and an older person — as in "The Kid." COMEDY POSSIBILITIES To have entertainment value, dramatic material must offer some possibilities for comedy. [40]