155--Hall outside Ella's room.
Bill "fixes it up" with Ella to "travel double." She wants
to rush in and tell her chum, but Bill stays her: "Nix--let
'em do some clinchin' first!"
156--Ella's room.
Florence and Blinker embracing.
Circle diaphragm closes to blackness.[60]
[Footnote 60: This is the script before it reached production. If you
see the picture you will no doubt observe directorial alterations that
came up during production. In that case you will have valuable
experience in seeing the difference between the original--the
script-writer's conception--and the directorial interpretation.]
CHAPTER XXI
MARKETING THE PHOTOPLAY SCRIPT
Writing the photoplay is essentially an art; marketing the photoplay
script is a business; and the sooner the writer adopts intelligent,
up-to-date business methods in offering his stories, the sooner he is
likely to find the checks coming in. It is not enough merely to send
out your script; it must be sent to that editor who is in the market
for the kind of script you have written. As one editor has said,
"Don't send a Biblical photoplay to a firm that makes a specialty of
Indian and cowboy subjects."
Your first care, then, should be to have as complete a knowledge as
possible of what every company is doing, what kinds of stories they
need at the time, where their field-companies are working, and, above
all, what kinds of scripts certain companies positively do _not_ want
at _any_ time.
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