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 #:
00043
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 CHAPTER IX. TWENTY-FIFTH SITUATION—ADULTERY. This situation, like XV, "Murderous Adultery," must be dealt with very care- fully in writing for the screen, because of its salacious and sensational element. It has been used skillfully in photoplays and has made a genuine dramatic appeal, but unless it is used in combination with Situations XXXII, XXXIII or XXXIV, it does not possess real strength. In such cases it is not "Adultery" properly, but it possesses the strength and inter- est of the basic conflict of "Adulter)'" without the disagreeable and unpleasant developments. A— A Mistress Betrayed: (1) —For a Younger Woman. (2)—For a Young Wife. (3)—For a Girl. B—A Wife Betrayed: (1)—For a Slave, Who Does Not Love in Return. (2)—For Debauchery. (3)—For a Married Woman. (4)—With the Intention of Bigamy. (5)_For a Young Girl, Who Does Not Love in Return. (6)—A Wife Envied by a Young Girl Who Is in Love With Her Husband. (7)—By a Courtesan. (8)—Rivalry Between a Lawful Wife Who Is Antipathetic and a Mis- tress Wlio Is Congenial. (9)—Between a Generous Wife and an Impassioned Girl. C (1)—An Antagonistic Husband Sacrificed for a Congenial Lover. (2)—A Husband, Believed to Be Lost, Forgotten for a Rival. (3)—A Commonplace Husband Sacrificed for a Sympathetic Lover. (4)—A Good Husband Betrayed for an Inferior Rival. (5)—For a Grotesque Rival. (6)—For an Odious Rival. (7)—For a Commonplace Rival, But a Perverse Wife. (8)—For a Rival Less Handsome, But Useful. D (1)—Vengeance of a Deceived Husband. (2)—Jealousy Sacrificed for the Sake of a Cause. E—A Husband Persecuted by a Rejected Rival. The writer should avoid this and similar subjects entirely unless he is positive that his theme and his characterization are of sufficient dramatic value to justify such a sensational element. The subdivisions are listed here as a reference of what to avoid rather than as suggestions for development. Despite the fact that this situation is sensational and suggestive, its subdivisions are of genuine dramatic interest, as a close examination will show, and if one can 41