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THE SCREEN WRITER
IF RANGE AND APPEAL WERE BROADENED WOULD MAGAZINE'S VALUE TO SWG AND MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY GAIN OR LOSE?
Gain
Lose
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SHOULD BOOK REVIEWS OF A MONTHLY CHECK LIST OF BOOKS BE ADDED TO THE MAGAZINE?
Yes
No
(A majority of yes answers specified that book reviews and listings should be restricted to those of special interest to writers and industry.)
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(Following Questions Sent Only to SWG Members)
IS MAGAZINE SUCCEEDING IN OR FALLING SHORT OF ITS OBJECTIVE TO PROVIDE THE SWG AND THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY WITH AN ADULT, CONSTRUCTIVE PUBLIC RELATIONS MEDIUM EMPHASIZING CONTRIBUTION OF WRITERS AND THEIR CREATIVE AIMS IN THE SCREEN ART?
Succeeding .... Falling Short
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AS A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GUILD AND ITS MAGAZINE, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN OCCASIONAL ASSIGNMENT TO DO AN ARTICLE?
Yes
No
Much interesting comment accompanied the questionnaire returns. There were a great many specific and general suggestions for future articles. Main currents of reader interest showed up clearly.
As indicated in the tabulated summary under the subhead Preference in Types of Articles, a very heavy demand was evident for more craft articles, for analysis and detailed discussion of the actual problems encountered in writing, directing and producing motion pictures, and for a more integrated consideration of the craft relationships existing between writers and the other creative levels of the industry. There was a frequently recurring request for the publication of screenplay scripts or portions of them illustrating techniques.
The Editorial Committee has not been unaware of this demand. Since the inception of the magazine an
effort has been made to meet it. The recent articles by William Wyler and Rouben Mamoulian, the current series by Sheridan Gibney, the article in this issue by the writer-producer, Jay Richard Kennedy, all represent the recognition of this need. However, the awareness of the Editorial Committee concerning the importance of craft articles has been sharpened by the impact of the questionnaire replies.
But it may be well to point out again that THE SCREEN WRITER is not one of the how-to-learnto-write-successfully-in-ten-easy-lessons magazines. It must leave that to the correspondence schools and their publications, and to the school of experience.
As for publishing scripts of produced screenplays or portions of them here, this has been done once or twice in the past, and several attempts have been made to continue doing it. But serious difficulties have been
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