The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1914)

MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE You Will Be interested in This Story! One night last Spring a Young Man dropped into a Moving Picture Theater with a friend. A 'Blood-and-Thunder" Western story was being shown— yon know the kind. "Pshaw!" said the Young Man, "I could write a better story than that." "Why don't you?" asked his friend. That started the Young Man to thinking and he investigated. Here is What He Found! He found that twenty million people attend thirty thousand moving picture theaters in the United States everyday. '"Surely," he thought, "it must require quite a number of motion pioture plays to entertain all these people." So he investigated further. He found that the demand for good moving picture plays exceeds the supply— that there are more moving picture plays bought each month by producers than there are stories by all the high-class magazines in the United States combined — that the produoers p ay from $15. 00 to $100. 00 for good plays, and carry standing advertisements in the magazines inviting writers to submit their work. He found that many men and women — clerks, teachers, stenographers, students, housewives — people in all walks of life, with no literary training whatever — were making money in their spare time writing these plays. This was enough for the Young Man. He took up the work himself. He found to his delight that his lack of literary training was no handicap, no descriptions or conversation to supply — just IDEAS developed into plays under the simple rules required by the producers. In six months he was earning more than his regular salary writing plays at home in the evening. His job interfered with his writing, so he quit his job. More than this — he is his own boss now. Remember, this Young Man is no genius — he had never written a story in his life — he simply saw an opportunity and GRASPED IT. You Can Succeed in This Work Your Ideas Are Worth Money Literary Training Not Necessary You have had ideas which you thought would make good moving picture plays — better than some you have seen on the screen. If you haven't, suppose you give the matter a little thought. Go to the theater tonight. Note how simple the stories are — yet these simple little plays brought their writers $25.00, $50.00 or $100.00 each. How about that incident at the office or in your home, or that you heard or read about? Don't keep it bottled up — write a motion picture play around it and sell it for $25.00 or more. If you are possessed of imagination — and who is not? — If you are ambitious and can use more money than you are making now — if you have tried to become a story writer and failed because of insufficient literary training — THE MOTION PICTURE PLAY OFFERS A SHORT CUT TO SUCCESS! Think of seeing YOUR OWN IDEAS on the screen in your own town, before your friends! This is to experience a satisfaction that cannot be described. cnat #'^V LET US TEACH YOU TO TURN YOUR IDEAS INTO DOLLARS /$% You can make $30.00 to $100.00 a month in your spare time Others are doing it! You have the ideas! Let us teach you how to use them in this new and profitable work. Our simple and interesting Course will teach you everything you need to know to succeed, how to write and how to SELL your plays. Our Course has been prepared by a WRITER OF NATIONAL REPUTATION. You probably have enjoyed many of his plays on the screen. He will give you his PERSONAL HELP AND ADVICE throughout the Course. He will teach you his methods, by which he SUCCEEDED. AUTHORS* ION m a c Learn all abouf^this fas V <?*/' SCHOOL cinating sparetime work S-P/* Oepl. S There is MONEY and FAME to .»♦ eO»' 122 80. Michigan a*. /A \* CHICAGO, ILL. /A i* lam Interest / S learning how to write f MOTION' PICTURE be gained in this new profession. if you start NOW! We have prepared an interesting cata #'/-y> logue which tells all about the J Vj of this work and describes our .# .O # easy and fascinating method A rrA Suppose we fr of teaching, send you F K EE AUTHORS9 MOTION PICTURE SCHOOL /$?'' "«~ Dept. S 122 So. Michigan Ave.. Chicago, III. Sc?S rj"jr catalogue and *V regarding your teaching. particulars method "' lilllllillllllllilllllilllllillllllll: V Address City. .Mate. When answering advertisement* kindly mention MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE,