Picture Play Magazine (Oct-Nov 1915)

supplied. Our advice is to study the screen, for it is the best teacher. Apply our hints to what you see there, and also to your own work. F. Fisher. — In our September 4th issue we published a list of film companies and addresses, and every week we give the names, addresses, and wants of a few more under the caption of "Live-wire Market Hints." U. KiLLiGAR.— Scripts may be sent to Universal, at 1600 Broadway, New 'York, N. Y., or Universal City, California. The Lubin Company, in Philadelphia, is still buying scenarios. Live-wire Market Hints. George Kleine, n East Fourteenth Street, New York, N. Y., is making two ireel dramas and comedy dramas for the General Film Program. Ethel Grandin is featured in these, and writers who are capable of turning out ; good material suitable for her use will find a market here. Quiloa Film Corporation, 220 West Forty-second Street, New York, N. Y., is in the market for sure-fire, one-reel comedy scenarios. We do not know where the films of this company are being released. Short Shots. Think a plot out, then write the "business." Several prominent motion-picture men were recently heard commenting on the unusualness of a film which had failed to include a love story. Many an amateur has labored over a five-reeler as his "first effort," and then wondered why he did not sell at once. Scenario writing is a difficult trade, and must be learned as thoroughly as any other trade before real money can be secured for one's work. With the coming of fall, the army of photo-playwrights is multiplied many times. Youths and maidens who have spent the summer "at the lake" have just finished studying the art, and are "ready to try their hand at it." The changing conditions in the film world have brought a long-awaited opportunity to several writers. It is almost as fatal to have an overcomplicated plot as it is to have one which is painfully obvious. 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