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Letter From
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GORDON KAHN, Editor of THE SCREEN WRITER, took a month's leave in order to fulfill an assignment from a national magazine on the subject of American film companies' operations in Mexico. He writes from there:
Dear Staff: My business here is completed. I can't say "happily completed" because I wish the assignment had lasted longer. I like Mexico, its people and its land. And I like watching the way a Mexican crew, from prop boy to cameraman meshes its operations and gets a script onto film.
Not as any plenipotentiary, but entirely on my own, I paid a fraternal call on our colleagues, the organization of Mexican screen writers. Its full and official name is a mouthful in any language: La Seccion de Autores y Adaptadores del Sindicato de Trabaj adores de la Produccion Cinematografica de la Republica Mexicana. Its two officials who welcomed me are Adolfo Fernandez Bustamente and Rafael E. Portas.
Over Mexican cigarettes that would knock the hat off even a writer of Westerns, we talked about our craft, the condition of the film industry in our respective countries and the writer's present and future in it. I got more than I gave at this visit, and frankly, what I handed them was a few laughs, which, to my face were polite enough.
For instance, they asked me about the kind of contracts American screen writers are required to sign as they undertake an assignment. I told them that the MGM writer's contract weighs somewhere around 11 Troy ounces and runs to 36 mimeographed pages. The WB schedule of "terms and conditions of writer's employment" scales slightly less; but then it is on thinner paper.
"And who, Senor Kahn," Senor Bustamente asked me, "prepares these (Continued on Page 38)
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The
Screen Writer
Vol. 3, No. 1
JUNE, 1947
CONTENTS
GORDON KAHN
Letter From Mexico
EMMET LA VERY
Snowball in the Spring
JAY RICHARD KENNEDY An Approach to Pictures
SUMNER LYON
Other End of the Rainbow
T. E. B. CLARKE
Writers -Dire dors in Britain
GARRETT GRAHAM
Witch-hunting in Hollywood
I. A. L. DIAMOND
Hollywood Jabberzvocky
SHERIDAN GIBNEY
The Screen Writer's Medium
MILT GROSS
One Way of Doing It
Editorial
Report on Questionnaire
Screen Writers-Film Authors
Report & Comment
Corresponden ce
Ne<ws Notes
Screen Credits
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