[APPENDIX B]
Especially Helpful Books on Photoplay Writing
1. Sargent, Epes Winthrop; The Technique of the Photoplay, Moving Picture World, New York, 1913. Third edition, 1917.
2. Phillips, Henry Albert; The Photodrama, Stanhope-Dodge Co., Larchmont, N.Y., 1914.
3. Powell, A. Van Buren; The Photoplay Synopsis, Home Correspondence School, Springfield, Mass., 1919.
INDEX
Names of authors and companies are printed in capitals; titles, and names of magazines, are printed in italics; and other topics are set in plain, or "Roman" type.
A
Action, [3], [4], [30], [134]-141, [313], [314].
Adrift, [294].
Adventure, [305].
After Fifty Years, [360].
Albright, Evelyn May, [74], [87], [90].
Ambrosio Company, [360].
American Company, [92], [268], [290].
Animals, [278], [279].
Annie Crawls Upstairs, [358]-360.
Artcraft, [79].
B
Backgrounds, [201].
Balzac, [348].
Barrett, Charles Raymond, [28], [74].
Bells, The, [317]-320.
Biograph, [153], [155], [156], [201].
Blue Book, The, [355].
Bookman, The, [356].
Bottle Imp, The, [361].
Brewster, Eugene V., [264], [265].
Brickdust Row, [363], [365].
Bringing Up Father, [343].
Browning, Robert, [358]-360.
Burlesque, [325], [326].
Bush, W. Stephen, [282], [283].
Bust, The, [17], [18], [163]-166.
Byrne Brothers, [326].
C
Cabanne, William Christy, [252].
Camera, [18].
Cameraman, [18].
Camera tricks, [181]-185.
Cask of Amontillado, The, [348]-350.
Cast, [18], [31], [32], [37], [109]-130, [370].
Censorship, [282]-289, [341].
Center of interest, [141]-143.
Changes of scene, [144]-161.
Characters, [18], [109]-130, [140], [142], [315], [316], [337], [338].
Child actors, [279], [288].
Class Reunion, The, [353].
Cleopatsy, [342].
Climax, [26], [194].
Close-up, [18], [166]-176.
Coffey, Robert E., [297].
Cohan, George, [289].
Collins, Wilkie, [305].
[Comedy] Photoplays, [2], [83], [84], [324]-346.
Coming Nation, The, [292], [293].
Complication, [89].
Conciseness, [198], [199].
Continuity: See "[Scenario]."
Cooper, Frederick Taber, [356].
Cooper-Hewitt lights, [247].
Cord of Life, The, [155], [156].
Costume plays, [280].
Count of Monte Cristo, The, [189], [190].
Cowell, Harry, [75], [77].
Crime in photoplays, [284], [285].
Cut-back, [19], [152]-157.
Cut-in, [19], [158]-161, [233]-237.
Cutting, [19].
D
Daphne and the Pirates, [253].
Denouement, [89].
Devil Stone, The, [236], [237], [321].
Dialogue, [3], [200], [201].
Diaphragm, [19], [20].
Diaphragming-in and -out: See "[Fade-in]," and "[Fade-out]."
Dickens, Charles, [185]-187.
Director, [20], [115], [116], [212]-214.
Doing a picture, [20].
[Double exposure], [20], [185]-188.
Doyle, A. Conan, [348]-351, [354].
Dramatic Mirror, The, [140], [263], [357].
Dramatic photoplay, The, [2].
Dreams, [176]-181.
Drew, John, [333].
Drew, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney, [329], [333]-335.
Dual-character films, [185]-188.
Duchess at Prayer, The, [348].
Dumas, Alexander, [189].
E
Eagle's Eye, The, [181]-183, [196], [274].
Edison, [3], [78], [111], [172], [275], [297], [358]-360.
Editing a Motion Picture, [227].
Editor, [20], [84], [85].
Educational films, [2], [3].
"Edwards, John Milton," [82].
Eight Bells, [326].
Episode, [194].
Essanay, [77].
Everybody's Girl, [363]-407.
Expense of production, [268]-281.
Exteriors, [20], [248], [249].
Extras, [21].
Extravaganza, [326].
F
[Fade in], [21].
[Fade out], [21].
Fairbanks, Douglas, [2], [102].
"Faked" scenes, [269]-272.
Famous Players, [189], [190].
Farce, [2], [324], [325].
Farnum, William, [186].
Feature photoplays, [24], [188]-193.
Fiction Factory, The, [82].
Fiction writing an aid to photoplay writing, [5]-16.
Figaro, Paris, [308], [309].
Fildew, William E., [252], [253].
Film, [21], [22].
Fine Arts, [253].
Fisher, "Bud," [343].
Footage, [22].
Fox, [186]-188.
Frame, [22].
Frohman, Daniel, [304].
G
Goldwyn, [85].
Grande Bretêche, La, [348].
Green, Anna Katherine, [138].
Griffith, D.W., [153], [157], [167], [226], [336].
H
Hackneyed themes, [296]-300.
Halévy, Ludovic, [307].
Hamlet, [325], [326].
Harrison, Louis Reeves, [91], [293].
Hazard, Floyd Hamilton, [304], [322].
Hazlitt, William, [338].
Heart-interest, [293], [305].
Hearts of the World, [157].
"Henry, O.," [201], [351], [352], [363].
Hoadley, C.B., [132], [149].
Hoagland, Herbert Case, [134], [138], [301], [322], [356].
Hoffman, Arthur S., [305], [306].
How to Write a Photoplay, [134], [301], [356].
Human interest, [305], [306].
Humor: See "[Comedy]."
I
Idea, [22].
In the Country God Forgot, [82].
Incendiary Foreman, The, [273].
Insert, [22], [157]-161, [218]-244.
Interest centralized, [141]-143.
Interpose, [22], [387].
Intolerance, [167], [168].
Irving, Sir Henry, [317].
Irwin, May, [325].
J
Jacobs, W.W., [355].
Johnson, Samuel, [415].
K
Kaiser, The, [127].
Kalem, [132].
Katterjohn, Monte M., [302].
Keenan, Frank, [320].
Keystone Comedy, [329].
L
Lang, Phil, [132], [133].
[Leaders], [4], [22], [157]-161, [218]-244.
Leavenworth Case, The, [138].
Letters, [237]-242.
Lighting, [247]-249, [280], [281].
Little Stone God, The, [355].
Location, [22], [23], [166].
Lubin, [78].
M
Macbeth, [282], [318].
MacGrath, Harold, [301], [302].
McManus, George, [343].
Magazine Maker, The, [75], [77].
Manuscript record, [415].
Marketing the photoplay, [408]-415.
Mask, [161]-163.
Maude, Cyril, [333].
Maupassant, Guy de, [351].
Memories, [176]-181.
Merwin, Bannister, [172]-175, [192], [197], [297].
Metro, [333].
Monkey's Paw, The, [355].
Moore, John Robert, [361], [362].
Mortmain, [184], [185].
Motion Picture Classic, [263].
Motion Picture Magazine, [263], [264].
Motion Picture News, [263], [336].
Motion Picture Story, The, [242].
Motivation, [88].
Motography, [263].
Moving Picture Stories, [15], [264].
Moving Picture World, The, [29], [91], [103], [120]-122, [132], [133], [174], [227], [231], [252], [253], [263], [282], [283], [286], [293], [332], [334], [335].
Multiple reel, [23], [24].
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The, [361].
Mutt and Jeff, [343].
N
Names, [120]-126.
Necklace, The, [351].
Negative, [23].
Nehls, R.R., [92], [268], [270], [290], [291].
Nestor, [34].
New Catacomb, The, [348]-350, [354].
O
Objectionable subjects, [282]-303.
Old Musician, The, [129].
Oppenheim, James, [358]-360.
Originality, [260]-262, [347]-362.
Outdoor scenes, [20], [248], [249].
Over-condensation, [199], [223]-225.
P
Padding, [189].
"Panorams," [168], [235].
Paramount, [127], [236], [321].
Part, [24].
Pathé, [273], [319], [322], [342].
Phillips, Henry Albert, [87].
Photographing, [208]-210.
Photoplay:
construction of, defined, [1]-4;
kinds of, [2];
terms, [17]-28.
Photoplay Author, The: See [The Writer's Monthly].
Photoplay Magazine, [286], [288].
Pickford, Mary, [168].
Picture-Play Magazine, [263].
Pierre of the North, [129].
Pippa Passes, [358]-360.
Plagiarism, [350]-357.
Plot, [7], [8], [16], [23], [30], [87]-95, [136], [255]-266.
Plot of the Short Story, The, [23], [87].
Poe, Edgar Allan, [348]-350, [361], [362].
Positive, [23].
Powell, A. Van Buren, [363]-407.
Prevost, Marcel, [308].
Pribyl, John F., [283]-285.
Print, [23].
R
Red Cross, [3], [300].
[Reel], [24].
Reeve, Arthur B., [193].
Reformation of Calliope, The, [352].
Register, [24], [25].
Rehearsals, [249], [250].
Release, [25].
S
Sargent, Epes Winthrop, [29], [77], [103], [107], [120]-122, [156], [157], [165], [172], [175], [228], [242], [250], [290], [305], [332].
[Scenario], [19], [25], [29], [32], [37]-54, [131]-203, [371]-407.
Scene, [25], [144]-161, [204]-217, [231].
Scene-plot, [25], [32], [33], [204]-217.
Script, [25], [26];
its component parts, [29]-33;
mechanical preparation of, [55]-71.
Seitz, George B., [194].
Selig, [2], [78], [129], [189], [190], [283]-285.
Sequence in the action, [135]-137.
Serials, [26], [193].
Set, [26], [204]-217.
Setting, [26], [166], [204]-217.
Short Story, The, [74], [87], [90].
Short-Story Writing, [28].
Situation, [26], [27].
Split reel: See "[Reel]."
Stage, [27], [245]-254.
Stock people, [27].
Stop-camera work, [176]-181.
Story, Walter, [283]-285.
Strand Magazine, [352], [354].
Stringer, Arthur, [184], [185].
Struggle, [89].
Studio, [27].
Subject, [28].
Sub-title: See "[Leader]."
Sullivan, C. Gardner, [127].
Sun, New York, [304].
Sun, Sand and Solitude, [82].
Superba, [326].
Super-imposure: See "[Double exposure]."
Suspense, [137]-140, [157], [195].
Swell Miss Fitzwell, The, [325].
Synopsis, [31], [35]-37, [87]-109, [365]-370.
T
Tale of Two Cities, A, [185]-187.
Technique of the Photoplay, The, [165], [242].
Thanhouser, [272].
Themes, desirable, [304]-323;
undesirable, [282]-303.
Thirteenth Man, The, [353].
Thomas, A.W., [288].
Three Friends, [153], [201].
Tinting, [28].
Title, [28], [72]-86.
Tremayne, W.A., [129].
Triangle, [79], [127].
Trite themes, [296]-300.
Typewriting, [59]-70.
U
Universal, [34], [127], [297].
V
Verne, Jules, [311].
Visions, [28], [176]-181.
Visualization, [132], [133].
Vitagraph, [106], [107], [129], [171], [172], [184], [185], [277], [278], [297], [302], [350], [363].
W
Wasted Sacrifice, A, [106], [107], [277], [278], [302].
Weber, Lois, [231].
Wells, Elmer N., [129].
Wharton, [181]-183, [196], [274].
Wharton, Edith, [348].
Without Reward, [34]-54, [208]-212.
Woods, Frank E., [226], [227], [357].
Wright, William Lord, [242], [243].
Writers of photoplays,
Previous training of, [5]-16.
[Writer's ]Monthly, The, [98], [107], [132], [149], [264].
Writing for the Magazines, [338]-341.
Writing the Short-Story, [23], [77], [87], [357].