Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1915)

182, MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE New Ideas By New Writers Wanted Previous Experience or Special Education Not Necessary — Big Demand Learn about these great prize contests. They are open to everybody, free. If you attend the movies you know the kind of ideas wanted. One of your ' 'happy thoughts' ' has as good a chance of winning a big cash prize as anybody's. It's IDEAS that count, not previous experience or education. Beginners, if they possess imagination, are wanted and encouraged. Write for free Darticulars. This Book Is Free To You Simply mail me free coupon below, and you will get this most interesting \ book and particulars of the big cash prizes, free. Act at once, before it is too late. Learn At Home In Spare Time The winner of a recent $1000 prize contest was practically a beginner. Not necessarily any more talented than you. You have doubtless been to moving1 picture shows and seen photoplays which you yourself could easily improve on. With 30,000 theatres changing program daily, and with the supply of photoplays from Europe cut off, the demand for new ideas has become tremendous. The American producers are making every effort to interest new writers in this work by offering prizes. Read these paragraphs clipped from a recent number of the Saturday Evening Post: How To Write Photoplays ^ by Elbert Moore tormtr Scenario Editor .1 one el WorW'a luteal 0 The Balboa Amusement Producing Company, of Los Angeles, began by offering a prize of two hundred and fifty dollars for the best picture story sent them. The Italian Society Cines, of Rome, offers five thousand dollars for the best moving-picture play submitted to it. The second-best •writer Is to receive one thousand dollars; the third* "best, five hundred dollars ; the fourth-best, two hundred dollars; and there are five consolation prizes of one hundred dollars each. Through the New York Evening Sun, the Vita^ graph company of America conducted a prize photoplay contest. The first prize was one thousand dollars: the second, two hundred ,and fifty dollars: and there were < onsolntion prizes of one hundred dollars each. These prize contests have greatly encouraged and stimulated the amateur photoplay writers throughout the country. I Guarantee $ 1 0 for Your First Photoplay So great is the demand that I am able to guarantee you at least $10 for the first photoplay you write by my method. This means you. I believe that every person with sufficient imagination and intelligence to be interested in this advertisement should possess material for at least one successful photoplay. And in order to make it worth your while to write to me I make you this remarkable guarantee. Many persons should be able to write as much as one successful photoplay each week. Such a record is by no means uncommon, and those who are doing this can earn from $100 to $300 a month simply for spare time work done in their own home. Writing photoplays enables those who lack the experience necessary for writing novels and stage plays to express the strong and original ideas which many of them possess. — — — —— — — — — -* Save $5 By Acting Now FREE COUPON ! ELBERT MOORE, I Box 772MD, Chicago Send free booklet. "How to Write Photoplays" and all facts about guarantee and $1000 cash offer. Name I Address .... J ■■"-.. ! fl hen answering advertisement* kindly I show you how to turn your ideas into correct photoplay form by a simple, easy method which is endorsed by the Balboa Amusement Company, mentioned above, and by many others. As former Scenario Editor of one of the largest companies, I speak with authority. Use the coupon to obtain the free booklet and full particulars. If you act at once you will obtain the benefit of a $5 reduction which I am now allowing for advertising purposes, to those who will start taking my lessons within 20 days. This cuts the cost to very low figures. Do not throw away $5 by delaying, when it costs nothing to investigate. «^fcgS Use free coupon at once, before you turn ^^^as the page. ELBERT MOORE (sJSuJ) mm Chicago mention MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE.