Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1912)

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OurBook^J You) EARN $25.00 to $100.00 A WEEK If you have ideas — if you can think, you can write plots for photoplays. It does not require a moment more time nor a whit more energy to earn $5,000 a year than it does to earn $10 a week. Here is a profession that pays. HERE ARE THE FACTS I The producers of picture plavs want the stories you are living, the stories you see in everyday life. They pay well for original plots, theu^ual price being $23 to $100. 2 There is a strong and constantly growing demand for plots adaptable to moving pictures. The demand far exceeds the supply. 3 Picture 'play-writing can be learned easily by an intelligent boy or girl of eighteen as well as by most mature persons. Only technical knowledge is required. 4 You are your own boss — you possess knowledge that makes you independent of all other bosses in the universe. You can snap your fingers at morning alarm clocks and noon-day "hour limits." 5 Our handbook of instruction, "How to Write and Market Moving Picture Plays," is easy to follow. Any one who can read English is sure of success. "How to Write and Market Moving Picture Plays" WRITTEN SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT It teaches the rudiments of writing photoplay plots— ones that contain heart-throbs and hearty laughs. It teaches you how to e worth-while plots ; it tells how to construct the salable scenario ; what the producer wants, and why ; how to market the manuscript. Tru it is a complete mail course in picture play-writing prepared in the form of a book containing TWENTY COMPLETE ARTICLED as follows : PHOTOPLAY KNOWLEDGE— Grammar and Spelling: Photoplay Terms: Photoplay Distinctions ; Classification of Photoplays ; Photoplay Ideas ; What to Avoid : Camera and Studio Conditions; Photoplay Limitations; Economical L liberations ; Photoplay Don'ts. TECHNIQUE OF THE PHOTOPLAY— Photoplay Construction; The Plot; Atmosphere and Eflert?; The Synopsis • A Completed Scenario : The Type Script j What Man ulacturers Demand; Manufacturers' Names aud Addresses ; Submitting ^r W*V tlu Manuscript; Photoplay Kules. Price $1.50, Mailed Anywhere in the United States The fact that you have read these statements and learned the facts regarding the money-making possibilities of picture play-writing will never benefit you one penny's worth if you don't take advantage of the chance it affords you and send today for our valuable book. Tell us; where is there another profession where the financial returns are so great or so sure? Now, are you going to let $1.50 stand between you and this chance to get your start in life ? Stop right now — send for this book. USE THE COUPON TODAY. PHOTOPLAY ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION 102 MILL STREET Boonville, Indiana