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

Record Details:

Title:
"How I did it,"
Date:
[c1922]
Publisher:
Los Angeles, Calif. : The Whittingham press
Volume:
"How I did it,"
Leaf #:
000190
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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Adaptations Mr. Young lives in Hollywood, where more than ninety per cent of the world's output of motion pictures is made. He could easily locate a score of competent adapters and con- tinuity experts who would make his play into acceptable photodrama, or in this instance "photofarce," but he has taken a new angle on his ideas along this line. Mr. Young visited the offices of the largest institution for the instruction of the technique of photoplay writing in the country and un- folded this story: "I am the owner, with Sam Rork, the pro- ducer, of the screen rights of the late Charles A. Hoyt's 'A Texas Steer.' I will soon be ready to produce it as a motion picture, but like a great many stage plays it is far from containing adequate picture material. If you will put your student-body in competition with one another in an effort to give me a screen adaptation of this play, I will see that the successful adapter is paid well for his work. Mind you, I do not say that I will want an adaptation that will absolutely fill all my requirements, but will accept the best ef- 131