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CONDENSING THE SCRIPT 65 tell him, because he didn't write the story. Put down just what you need. Something like this, perhaps: 7- Street- Jack and Tom meet. They shake hands and chat. Tom suggests that they go and see Harry. Jack agrees. They pass out of the scene. That's shorter yet, and still it's so plain that the director knows just what we want to get. We have the meeting and the sugges- tion of the visit. Perhaps we can do better yet. .Let's try it. This time we'll drop the punctuation and try that scheme of using hyphens. We will get something that looks like this: 7- Street- Jack and Tom meet- greetings- Tom speaks- Jack assents- they exit. That is one line of typewriting instead of nine that we had in the first place. That's a little different, isn't it? We have taken away none of the essential action, the action -that tells the story, but we have removed a lot of useless direction that any director knows enough to put in himself. When he comes to handle this scene he will look it over. At a glance he sees that this is the scene where Jack and Tom meet. That's all he needs to know. He tells the players what to do. They do it and pass on to the next scene. Suppose that the scene is a wedding. We do not have to write half a page telling how the stage is set and how the ceremony is performed and all that sort of thing. Suppose that what we are trying to show is that Paul comes down the aisle with Mary on his arm and shrinks back as he passes Gertrude, whom he de- serted for Mary. XThat is a telling situation, but it does not need many words. We do not have to tell that a ribbon is run along the pews to hold the guests back until the bridal party has passed. We do not have to describe how the bridal party acts, what the minister does and all that. All we need to say is that Gertrude is all broken up and that she faces Paul. Now it will be effective to show Gertrude during the ceremony and as they come down the aisle, but that would take too much film, because we should have to show a part of the ceremony and then the march down the aisle. It would be better to first show Gertrude taking her place in the pew. This scene gives the sug- gestion that something is going to happen. We cannot leave her sitting there. We will have to break. Perhaps we show a flash of Mary getting out of the carriage. Now we have her come