The screen writer (Apr-Oct 1948)

Record Details:

Title:
The screen writer
Date:
Apr-Oct 1948
Publisher:
Hollywood : Screen Writers' Guild, Inc.
Volume:
The screen writer (Apr-Oct 1948)
Leaf #:
000173
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:
December 21, 2023
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

SCREEN WRITERS' GUILD, INC. 1655 NO. CHEROKEE AVE., HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIFORNIA AFFILIATED WITH AUTHORS' LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC. OFFICERS & EXECUTIVE BOARD, THE SCREEN WRITERS' GUILD: PRESIDENT: SHERIDAN GIBNEY; 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE SEATON; 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT, F. HUGH HERBERT; 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT, DWIGHT TAYLOR; SECRETARY, ARTHUR SHEEKMAN; TREASURER, HARRY TUGEND. EXECUTIVE BOARD: ROBERT ARDREY, ART ARTHUR, CLAUDE BINYON, CHARLES BRACKETT, FRANK CAVETT, OLIVE COOPER, VALENTINE DAVIES, RICHARD ENGLISH, EVERETT FREEMAN, PAUL GANGELIN, ALBERT HACKETT, ARTHUR KOBER, MILTON KRIMS, ERNEST PASCAL, LEONARD SPIGELGASS. COUNSEL, MORRIS E. COHN. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, ALICE PENNEMAN. EDITOR REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIP THE summer, gone now, has been a time of tribulation for workers in films. Within the framework of two Philadelphia conventions, the box office slips; with Gorgeous George televising his pailletted robe behind every barT prestige pictures (sic!) collapse and Abbott and Costello flourish; with Berlin in siege and Israel in transition, craft guilds meet and battle and compromise; with the draft and astronomical meat prices, the British slap on a forty-five per cent quota restriction; with the un-American committee groaning again, the carpenters' strike against the studios enters its tragic third year. It has, in fact, been a summer of crisis, and the Screen Writers' Guild has, as usual, been deeply involved. For those of you who've been away, but mostly for the sake of the record, we've tried to assemble all the facts in a neat if depressing package. There is no order of importance. Everything is important. BOX OFFICE According to the best (and they are as reliable as we can get) reports, the approximate drop in box office through July 1948 as compared with July 1947 is 5% The Screen Writer, September, 194S