"How I did it," ([c1922])

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Authors 9 Era last resort for a story. He belonged to no profession and his work was not accepted as an important part of the success of a picture. This was because the picture itself was not accepted as a form of entertainment that would ever become popular with the masses. It appealed to a limited number of people in those days. When the producer was in a pinch, the screen writer would dash off a story after dinner and deliver it the next morning, and by noon the picture would be half fin- ished. Sometimes the producer and writer would compose a story as they sat beside the camera. But as the screen progressed and gradually interested the more seriously minded, the screen writer advanced with it, until the pro- ducer finally realized the profession of screen writing was becoming a very valuable asset to the production of moving pictures. However, the producer did a lot of experi- menting before he was willing to admit that screen writing was an art in itself. There came a period when producers stampeded for the screen rights to popular books, plays and