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A History of the ScreenplayThe Hollywood Sound Screenplay to 1948

A History of the Screenplay: The Hollywood Sound Screenplay to 1948 [If the numbered continuity had become standardised within the Hollywood of the 1920s, the hasty conversion to sound had resulted in an ad hoc approach to resolving the technical questions confronting the script at a time of rapid industrial change. There is little consistency, at this transitional time, between scripts or often within the same script, regarding such matters as how to present dialogue, where to position the speakers’ names and how, in particular, to overcome the problem that, with intertitles having become obsolete, precisely rendered speech and action now occurred simultaneously. As Staiger remarks, ‘[e]ach studio adapted the old script format differently’.1 This prompted suggestions that the Hollywood studios should collectively introduce an agreed, standard format for the presentation of scripts.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of the ScreenplayThe Hollywood Sound Screenplay to 1948

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
ISBN
978-0-230-29181-2
Pages
140 –162
DOI
10.1057/9781137315700_8
Publisher site
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Abstract

[If the numbered continuity had become standardised within the Hollywood of the 1920s, the hasty conversion to sound had resulted in an ad hoc approach to resolving the technical questions confronting the script at a time of rapid industrial change. There is little consistency, at this transitional time, between scripts or often within the same script, regarding such matters as how to present dialogue, where to position the speakers’ names and how, in particular, to overcome the problem that, with intertitles having become obsolete, precisely rendered speech and action now occurred simultaneously. As Staiger remarks, ‘[e]ach studio adapted the old script format differently’.1 This prompted suggestions that the Hollywood studios should collectively introduce an agreed, standard format for the presentation of scripts.]

Published: Nov 12, 2015

Keywords: Scene Text; Silver Coin; Narrative Coherence; Shot Type; Script Format

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