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duty to coordinate the production function with the other major functions such as finance, distribution, and exhibition.
Story departments are maintained both at the home office in New York City and at the Hollywood Studio. They are operated as separate units, although the former, because of its proximity to the theatrical, book publishing, and style center, is considered first in line of authority.
The story departments obtain information and maintain records of current, past, and future stories, magazine articles, plays, poems, and all other material that might be used as plots for motion pictures. The department managers make contacts with publishers, writers, playwrights, and composers and endeavor at all times to have current knowledge of matters pertaining to the literary world. To facilitate the proper selection of material, it is necessary for them to understand the story requirements of motion pictures, the censorship laws of the several states, and in particular the type of plot best suited to each Paramount actor, actress, and director.
The story department maintains separate readers to glean material for motion picture plots from magazine stories. Generally magazine articles are made available to motion picture producers in advance of publication; to be of value as a motion picture plot it is necessary that a serial story be made available long before the last episode appears in a magazine. Additional material is secured from "fan" mail, actors, actresses, directors, company employees, especially those holding important positions in the production departments, and from numerous other voluntary sources.
The two units of the story department submit briefs of all reviewed material to the studios once each week. It is also customary, because of the lack of literary facilities in Hollywood, for the New York division to supply the California studio with the reviewed books and articles. If the production heads at either studio are interested in the briefs, the story is studied in detail and a rough script, or motion picture version, is prepared by an adapter. If the script is