Photoplay plot encyclopedia; an analysis of the use in photoplays of the thirty-six dramatic situations and their subdivisions. Containing a list of all the fundamental dramatic material to be found in human experience, including the synopses of one hundred produced representative photoplays, with a detailed analysis of the situations used in each. Practical suggestions for combining situations, for testing the strength and novelty of plots, and for building plots; and an index referring to each producer, author, star, story and situation mentioned in the text (1922)

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Title:
Photoplay plot encyclopedia; an analysis of the use in photoplays of the thirty-six dramatic situations and their subdivisions. Containing a list of all the fundamental dramatic material to be found in human experience, including the synopses of one hundred produced representative photoplays, with a detailed analysis of the situations used in each. Practical suggestions for combining situations, for testing the strength and novelty of plots, and for building plots; and an index referring to each producer, author, star, story and situation mentioned in the text
Date:
1922
Publisher:
Los Angeles, Cal. : Palmer Photoplay Corporation, Department of Education
Volume:
Photoplay plot encyclopedia; an analysis of the use in photoplays of the thirty-six dramatic situations and their subdivisions. Containing a list of all the fundamental dramatic material to be found in human experience, including the synopses of one hundred produced representative photoplays, with a detailed analysis of the situations used in each. Practical suggestions for combining situations, for testing the strength and novelty of plots, and for building plots; and an index referring to each producer, author, star, story and situation mentioned in the text
Leaf #:
00010
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Includes index
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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PHOTOPLAY PLOT ENCYCLOPEDIA 2. In the subsequent chapters related and associated groups of Situations will be taken up individually, with reference to the forms and phases in which they have been used in photoplays. Examples will be cited of situations in photoplays recently produced, and suggestive com- ments upon the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness in their use will be made. In studying the situations and the examples of their use it will be well for the student to read slowly and carefully, for by the very nature of the work, a great deal of information is condensed into a brief space, though it is conveyed simply and directly. 3. Tke student should aim to famil- iarize himself in a g;eneral way with the contents, and thei,, after writing an orig- inal story, should determine just which situations he has used. By referring to the comments upon those situations, the writer will readily recognize whether his story is hackneyed or novel, effective or ineffective. 4. Read slowly, intelligently, analyti- cally, and you will find that your im- agination will grasp the essentials of the problem of situation after one reading. Thereafter, continue your study and test everything you write in accordance with the plan suggested above. Note: This work is not intended as a complete or comprehensive study of photo- play writing, but simply of the funda- mental thirty-six dramatic situations and their use in the photoplay. This work is a reference supplement to the Palmer Hand- book.