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Dreams Wanted
Victor Fleming, the director of Captains Courageous, Treasure Island, and many other successful films, began his film career as a cameraman. Today he seldom looks through the finder of a camera.
"I know," he said, "that if I do I will instinctively start grouping my people to get the most charming pictorial composition. What I must do is to interest folk in the action of my characters, not scenery or set, which, no matter how beautiful, must remain unobtrusive."
Thousands of stories, and every short story of every monthly or weekly magazine of high or low degree, are read by a corps of trained readers. A large room, fitted with comfortable overstuffed chairs, is the headquarters for the readers of one typical studio. These are former dramatic or literary critics, or advanced graduate students in literature. They must in general be very familiar with literature of all periods.
These readers submit each story to five fundamental tests. First, do the central characterizations fit one or more of the stars or featured players under contract to the studio? Second, will there be difficulty in adapting the story to the talking picture form? Third, does it have reasonably attractive pictorial elements? Stories with a monotonously drab background may be interesting reading when written by a genius, but they are likely to prove faulty for pictorial presentation. Fourth, is the story of a type that has a wide public appeal? Fifth and finally, can it be exhibited within a limit of two hours?
Reading professionally is hard, concentrated work.
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