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90 <^> ^> ^> The Motion Picture Industry
wood.5 A number of writers were under contract to write scenarios. Other writers and readers were organized in several sections. Some members of the staff devoted their entire time to searching out and reading books and stories which, in their opinion, would make satisfactory plots for motion pictures. To this staff were presented all the suggestions of members of the various departments, as well as all unsolicited scenarios offered by amateurs and other writers. A synopsis was written of each story which seemed to the staff to offer any possibilities. These synopses were then read by another section of the staff and analyzed for their adaptability to motion picture production. There were certain standards of motion picture technique which a story had to attain. The staff put its approval only upon such stories as met with these technical requirements and were at the same time interesting.
The stories, and such scenarios as had been offered by the company's staff of writers, were then presented to the executive in charge of production. He discussed the proposed pictures and others, such as current stage successes, novels, and short stories, the motion picture rights to which he had acquired either outright or on option, with a scenario cabinet composed of the chief production executives and certain directors. This cabinet, in making its decision, tried to plan a group of pictures which it believed would be well balanced and popular.
With the opinions of his cabinet in mind, the executive in charge of production then conferred with the executives of the distribution department, the president of the company, the treasurer, and certain minor executives, all of whom comprised the Program Planning Committee. Although such factors as facilities for production and theater requirements were considered at this conference, it was called chiefly for the purpose of making a decision regarding the program of
5 The story department maintained a representative in the home office in New York City to contact publishers, writers, and such other sources of material as were available there.