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HOW TO WRITE MOVING PICTURE PLAYS
does not. If he did, he could command an annual salary of a million dollars. The same applies to selling photoplays. You CANNOT expect to find a buyer in the first company to whom you submit each new play.
Section 35.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
The quickest and surest way to learn to write photoplays is to WRITE THEM. “Practice makes perfect.”
Write your plays under your own name. A nom de plume is silly and useless; you should certainly not be ashamed of your success.
Do not waste your time in building false hopes that you would make a complete success as a moving picture actor; you will be disillusioned if you do. These actors have had years of experience on the legitimate stage before entering this work. The amateur stands practically no chance, the applications of the experienced actors, constantly on file, receiving all preference.
It is now customary with some producers to show name of author below title, on the screen, with each play produced; and I think the time is coming when
this will be done by every company, the same as the author’s name in a book. It will be a proud moment in your life when you see YOUR name flashed on the screen for the first time. Therefore, try to make it a good play to do credit to a good name.
Don’t think that technique is the chief essential of success. Technique is very important, but the story, its plot, scene action, and human interest, are more so.
Talking pictures are produced by the combined use of motion pictures and phonograph. This work has not as yet reached the perfection of the regular motion picture, and is not treated upon in this manual.
Please remember that neither the author of this book, nor the publishers, will read, revise, criticize, buy, or sell photoplays. Producers prefer to buy DIRECT FROM THE WRITER. Your manuscripts must therefore be mailed to the producing companies shown on list included with this book.
It is an excellent idea to paste the List of Producers (included with this work) onto the inside cover of book, to prevent its loss.
Adopt as your golden rule, “I WILL SUCCEED.”