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The Screen play ™L J The motion-picture screen play is a written composition designed to serve as a sort of work diagram for the motion-picture director. He causes it to be photographed as a series of picture sequences. When spliced together these sequences become the finished motion-picture film, after suitable sound effects and background music have been dubbed in.
Unlike the play or novel, the motion-picture screen play— or, as it has been variously called, the shooting script, the script, or the scenario— has seldom become a work of literary art. Like the blueprint in architecture, it has served only as an intermediate stage through which the completed motion picture must go before it achieves its ultimate structure as a movie.
The Hollywood screen-play writer's position in the manufacture of motion pictures is comparable to that of the writer in no other medium in the field of entertainment. The playwright usually sees his drama produced and performed almost as he has written it, unless a play doctor has been called in. The magazine writer's work is published with relatively few corrections by his editor. The book author is rarely forced to make radical editorial changes. Radio writing is affected in not too great a degree by the demands of advertising-agency account executives. But the supposedly creative work of the Hollywood screen-play writer seldom, if ever, reaches the screening stage intact.
There are many reasons for this peculiar difference. The making of motion pictures is a collaborative enterprise. The creative work of dozens of closely knit crafts and arts is necessary— acting, cinematography, architecture, scenic design, costume design, interior deco
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