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with the film, it is released to exchanges and these in turn supply the theatres. The developing and printing of those long ribbons of films are very wonderful processes. They are wound on frames and dipped into the developing baths, and, when dry, are run through machines to be printed by electric light. When a photoplay is shown in a theatre, the film passes from an upper to a lower magazine on the projecting ma- chine. The pictures are magnified by a powerful lens through which a very strong light is thrown from the "lamp house/' or lantern, on the machine. YOUR SCENARIO "Scenario" is a term that has been brought into the photoplay vocabulary from the dramatic stage. There it is applied to the bare plot of a play—its action as dis- tinct from the dialogue. When the writing of photoplays developed into a profession, the term "scenario" was adopted as the most fitting for the form in which plays are offered to film producers. It means an outline of the plot, situation by situation, arranged in scenes as the action changes its base of operations. In the course of a talk with Mr. Horace G. Plimpton, Manager of the Negative Production of the Edison Com- pany, he said: "There is no secret, no mystery about the writing of scenarios. All that is required is the ability to think up good, effective plots, and the skill to present them in scenes of telling action. And the best way to develop ability and acquire skill is by going to moving picture the- atres and studying the films." From the start, you must get firmly fixed in your mind the demand that something must be doing all the time. There must be something interesting, something pointing to the development of the story every second of the time. You cannot have, as in a story'or a spoken play, a couple