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 #:
00035
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 These subdivisions were of more value in classic drama than in the photoplay of today, for they are all somewhat morbid and disagreeable; but they are suggestive of many variations of the same kind of enigmas, and in some of the examples we shall consider, we will find that the modern use of the enigma has been very effective. A photoplay has sometimes been divided into three definite parts, corresponding to Aristotle's rule that a drama should possess a beginning, a middle, and an end. The photoplay may be said to have a premise, in which a question is asked; a development, in which certain clues to the answer are supplied, though the enigmatic nature of the question remains unchanged; and a conclusion, in which the true answer is supplied. Photoplays which follow the word as well as the spirit of this rule will usually fall into one or another phase of Situation XI. The rule is worth remembering as a test of logical plot development. TWELFTH SITUATION—OBTAINING. A—Efforts to Obtain an Object by Ruse or Force. B—Endeavor by Means of Persuasive Eloquence. C — Eloquence With an Arbitrator. It will be seen from these subdivisions that Situation XII bears a direct relation to Situations I and II, "Supplication" and "Deliverance." It might, indeed, be listed as a subdivision of either of these Situations but its use in the classical drama, particularly where the spoken word is of impressive dramatic value, requires its listing as a separate and distinct Situation. It has obvious melodramatic value, especially in Subdivision A, and in its more subtle phases, it is a milder, gentler Situation than I or II. However, the photoplaywright should not depend for vital dramatic effect upon it. 33