The Photodrama; The Philosophy of Its Principles, the Nature of Its Plot, Its Dramatic Construction and Technique, Illumined by Copious Examples, Toge

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1914 Excerpt: ... An Example can but show you what to do and what not to do; it cannot teach you how or why to do a thing; the more perfect it be the less me-chanics it will reveal; it is not a les-son to you in Technique, but the re-sult of Technique by another. CHAPTER II A Specimen Photoplay THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TYPOGRAPHY; THE SALT OF VENGEANCE/' A SHORT PLAY DRAMA. TYPOGRAPHICAL display in preparing manuscript will effect its immediate understandability. A careless and unintelligent display will require extra time and patience on the part of the reader to fathom its full significance. A careful and intelligent arrangement will enable the reader to grasp the full meaning of every detail on sight. The special features of the arrangement and display of type adhered to in the following play are: (i) Single-spacing body of Synopsis; (2) Underlining setting, or location, above the text of scene action; (3) Indenting scene text, single-spacing it and making it stand out as by putting double space before and after it; (4) All Captions and dialog typed in capital letters; (5) Using the red ribbon for all matter that is to appear intact on the screen; (6) Numbering Scenes and Captions in Arabic numerals and Inserts in Roman; (7) Indenting Close-Views double the distance of Scene indentation; (8) In case of more than one reel, numbering the scenes consecutively (i to i00, etc.) but, after the first reel, putting in parenthesis the number of scenes it represents in current reel, as: Scene 48 (i3), always referring back to the serial number on its reappearance. (The foregoing remarks are necessary since print-type gives only the effect without following the rules identically.) HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS, New York City.... N. Y. THE SALT OF VENGEANCE. A Short Play (One Reel) Drama In 23 ...