Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

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C0LL1NGB0URNE MILLS, Dept. 739, ELGIN, ILLS. $250.00 in Gold to be Awarded .SL£^«*E5 answers to the question. “What Are They Saying?” Full particulars will be found iu the current number on sale at all newsstands. Fifteen cents a copy, and the handsomest magazine, of the standard size, in the world. All Motion Picture enthusiasts simply have to read this magazine. Among the features of the March number is a splendid short story by Cyrus Townsend Brady. And lots of other things just as good. THE ART OF SELLING A PHOTOPLAY A THINC MORE DIFFICULT TO ACQUIRE THAN THE KNACK OF WRITINC ONE The Photoplay Clearing House Acts as Advisor, Friend and Agent in Setting Ycu on the Right Road to Successful Scenario Writing Established for nearly three years, with a record of hundreds of sales, over 15,000 manuscripts reviewed, criticized and placed upon the market, the Photoplay Clearing House has become the one authoritative and reliable agent for the handling of authors’ product in the Moving Picture industry. We have received over 5,000 testimonial letters; we are under the supervision of the Motion Picture Magazine : our business is in intimate personal touch with all of the leading photoplay manufacturers, and our staff of editors, who personally pass upon all material, consists of the following well-known photoplaywrights: Edwin M. La Roche, Henry Albert Phillips, L. Case Russell, William Lord Wright, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Dorothy Donnell, T. H. Chesnut, Gladys Hall and others. In order to qualify for our reading staff of editors, it is necessary that an editor be a successful scenario writer, a fair and able critic, and a good Judge of market conditions and values. We tell you: How to Go About It, Where to Market Your Product, How to Revise and Cure Its Weak Points, The Kind of Photoplays Wanted, and a hundred other details of making and selling a finished scenario. THE FOLLOWING LETTERS ARE PICKED AT RANDOM FROM A FILE OF OVER 5.000: Photoplay Clearing House: Photoplay Clearing House: My Dear Sirs — Let us have some three and five-reel stuff. Dear Sirs — Enclosed you will find release slip for fifteen mostly five, and make it good. No Western and not too dollars ($15.00) for scenario entitled “The Double Reward, many on the "seamy” side of life. by Frank D. Genest. We want to discourage the submitting of hundreds of At present we are doing threereel features exclusively, manuscripts which have been coming in from week to and scripts of that length telling a strong, dramatic story week from outside contributors, most of which are pure rot. will be given prompt consideration. Yours faithfully. With all best wishes, I am, THOMAS A. EDISON, INCORPORATED, Sincerely, L. W. McChesney, Manager Motion Picture Division. WILBERT MELVILLE. (F T ) Photoplay Clearing House: Gentlemen— I received your revision of my manuscript. No. 12,652, "Honor's Disguise," which was changed to Dear Mr. Ball: "Brother Jim," and I really must say I was delighted at Yours of the eighth received, and contents carefully the change. Everything so clear and words so well chosen noted. I can use several comedies with good strong plots, that I seemed ashamed of what I had sent you before you We are putting on farce comedies here at the present time, revised it. but give me a good comedy plot. Let me have some stories I hope you can sell this photoplay for me, and with at your earliest convenience, gratitude to you, I am. Very sincerely. Yours most sincerely, at wav (MISS) CECILE NEWMAN. UAI* „ 14B 115 W. 113th St., New York City. National Film Corp., Baltimore, Md. And so on thru a long list of pleased patrons and studios, which we will announce as space permits. THE PLAN OF THE PHOTOPLAY CLEARING HOUSE. We are intimately connected with the Motion Picture business and in close touch with the manufacturers. We are advised of all their advance releases, their requirements and the kind of scripts they want. As suitable ones come to us, in salable shape, they are immediately sent to the proper studio. No stale, imperfect or copied plots are submitted. Ali photoplaywrights are invited to send their Plays to this company, advising as to what manufacturers they have been previously submitted, if any. Every Play will be treated thus: It will be read by competent readers, numbered, classified and filed. If it is, in our opinion, in perfect condition, we shall at once proceed to market it, and, when we are paid for It, we will pay the writer 90% of the amount we receive, less postage expended. If the Scenario is not in marketable shape, we will so advise the author, stating our objections, offering to return it at once for his correction, or to revise, typewrite and try to market It. IF THE MANUSCRIPT IS HOPELESS. WE SHALL SO STATE, and In some cases advise a course of instruction, naming various books, experts and reliable teachers to select from. Fee for reading, criticism and filing, $1.00 (multiple reels, $1.00 per / reel), but to readers of the MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC It This Coupon is will be only 50c., provided the annexed Coupon accompanies each script; pood for 50 cents, for multiple reels. 50c. per reel. For typewriting, a charge of $1.00 for When accompanied each Play will be made provided it does not run over 10 pages. 10c. <■' with 50 cents more a page for extra pages. The fee for revising will vary according it will entitle holder to work required, and will be arranged in advance. No Scenarios to list one single-reel • will be placed by us unless they are properly typewritten. Pay scenario with the Pho ment in advance Is expected in all cases. RETURN POST toplay Clearing House. AGE SHOULD BE INCLUDED, and foreign contributors should allow for U.S. exchange. Enclose P.O. order, stamps, Photoplay Clearing House, checks, or money with manuscripts. 1c. stamps accepted. 175 Duffield St. B’klvn. N. Y. 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