The screen writer (June 1945-May 1946)

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Record Details:

Title:
The screen writer
Date:
June 1945-May 1946
Publisher:
Hollywood : Screen Writers' Guild, Inc.
Volume:
The screen writer (June 1945-May 1946)
Leaf #:
000441
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
'A publication of the Screen Writers' Guild, Inc.'
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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WRITING FDR PERCENTAGE JOHN KLORER lHE long-cherished dream of screen writers is to have a royalty in the earnings of pictures they write. The recent boom of independent production has brought a realization of this dream, for many independents have shown a willingness to pay for stories and screenplays with a percentage of the picture. This trend has grown until we need a percentage yardstick to measure a writer's worth in relation to a motion picture. During the past year and a half I have worked on three such profit-sharing deals and in each case the deal was different, but in each case a lot of dickering and trading could have been cut short had I been able to start with some basic agreement. So I worked one out. There are several ramifications to these independent productions. A producer may cut the writer in for a piece of the picture either by paying him outright in stock or giving the writer an option to buy a certain percentage of the company's stock. One of my producers divided the writing into three equally important literary contributions: the original story, the treatment and the screenplay. Another considered only the original story and the screenplay. In the third case, the producer wanted no original story or treatment. All he was interested in was the screenplay. Before coming to Hollywood as a screen writer, JOHN KLORER was a newspaperman in New Orleans.