Writing the photoplay ([c1913])

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188 WRITING THE PHOTOPLAY You may either show a paragraph in the body of the letter, with a line or two just before and just after it, thus: On screen, letter. and it was from him that I learned the truth. I'll leave for Wheeling on the first train tomorrow, and hope to clasp your hand again before Monday night. Honestly, old man, it seems too good to be Or you may write out the ending of the letter in such a way as to suggest that much more has been said in the forepart of the message, thus: On screen, letter, folded down to show only this: so I'll leave for Wheeling on the first train tomorrow, and hope to clasp your hand again before Monday night. Honestly, Old Man, it seems too good to be true. I won't be able to believe that what Morgan told me is true imtil I see you with my own eyes. Until then, believe me to be As ever, your sincere friend, Stephen Loring. Provided that the producer was not short of footage, such a letter as the foregoing would not be any too long. Many shown on the screen are much longer. To illustrate the way a letter will consume footage, we reproduce the one for which fifteen feet were allowed, in Edison's "The Close of the American Revolution," already mentioned.