A practical manual of screen playwriting : for theater and television films (1952)

174 A PRACTICAL MANUAL OF SCREEN PLAYWRITING MR. MEADE (hesitantly) I can hold him, dear. MRS. MEADE Oh! he's not heavy at all, darling. EXT.-CAB AT CURB-DAY 3. MED. SHOT on nurse as we see Mr. Meade slip a bill into her hand. MR. MEADE Thanks for everything, nurse. The nurse slams the cab door shut and grins. NURSE Thank you. The nurse straightens up. He's all yours now. Watch out for kidnapers! 'Bye. 4. EXT.-CAB AT CURB-DAY REVERSE ANGLE The cab pulls away and out of the frame. The nurse stares after it for a moment, sighs, shrugs her shoulders, turns to the hospital entrance and walks to it, the CAMERA TRUCKING IN to her, as she passes the sign on the hospital wall reading MERIWETHER HOSPITAL. As she disappears in the entrance, the CAMERA CONTINUES TO GO IN for an EXT. CLOSE-UP on the sign. DISSOLVE By holding on the nurse and then trucking in with her to the hospital entrance, instead of panning out with the cab, we can indicate that the succeeding action will continue with the nurse, and not with those in the cab. Were the latter to be necessary, we would pan out with the cab, holding on it for a while, and then cut directly into the cab interior. As it is now, we will cut into the hospital interior, on the nurse again, as she enters Jane's room. Since little time will elapse between the time we last see the nurse