The Screen Writer (1950)★ 6.3/10
- Documentary
- Short
Directed by: Jerry Webb
Written by: Paul Gangelin, Jack Roberts, Lyle Robertson
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter and how he transforms a story idea, novel, or stage play into a screenplay that becomes the film seen in cinemas.
- Original title
- The Screen Writer
- Storyline
- This short focuses on the job of the screenwriter, who adapts a story into a screenplay. It is his screenplay that is transformed into the movie we see at theaters. An original story may come from literary agents or studio story editors. Novels and plays also provide story ideas. Some screenwriters became directors and producers. Others even became studio production heads such as Darryl F. Zanuck and Dore Schary.
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 54
- Companies
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), Industry Film Project, Twentieth Century Fox, Grapevine Video
- Release dates
- US September 13, 1950