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Original Articles

The struggle for the silents: The British screenwriter from 1910 to 1930

Pages 115-128 | Published online: 06 Jan 2014

References

  • Abel, Richard (ed.) (2005), Encyclopaedia of Early Cinema, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Barr, Charles (2002), Writing Screen Plays. Stannard and Hitchcock. In Higson, pp. 227–241.
  • Bordwell, David, Staiger, Janet and Thompson, Kristin (1985), The Classical Hollywood Cinema. Film style and mode of production to 1960. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  • Brewster, Ben and Jacobs, Lea (1997), Theatre to Cinema, Oxford, Oxford UP.
  • Brunel, Adrian (192?) Script Value. The Importance of the Detailed Scenario. Typescript 2 pp. [Unpublished notes, British Film Institute National Library].
  • Brunel, Adrian (1927), The Vortex. Comments on Initial Continuity. Typescript 5 pp. [Unpublished notes, British Film Institute National Library]
  • Brunel, Adrian (1933), Filmcraft, London: Newnes.
  • Burton, Alan and Porter, Laratne (2003), Scene-Stealing. Sources for British Cinema before 1930, Trowbridge, Wilts.: Flicks Books.
  • Eaton, Michael (2003), Hitch and Strange, in Burton and Porter, (eds.), pp. 110–117.
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  • Emerson, John and Loos, Anita (1920), How to Write Photoplays, NY, James A. McCann.
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  • Macdonald, Ian W., (2005), Playwriting for the Pictures. 8th BFI/Broadway Cinema Silent Cinema Conference, Nottingham, 7th–10th April 2005. Conference Paper.
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  • Novello, Ivor (1927), [letter to Michael Balcon] typescript 2 pp.
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  • Raynauld, Isabelle (1997), Written Scenarios of Early French Cinema: Screenwriting Practices in the First Twenty Years, Film History 9, pp. 257–268.
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  • Turvey, Gerald (2003), Enter the Intellectuals: Eliot Stannard, Harold Weston and the Discourse on Cinema and Art, in Burton and Porter (eds.), pp. 85–93.

Screenplays/scenarios

  • NB: All scripts are held by the British Film Institute National Library, London.
  • Anon (1912), The Motor Bandits [working title] Shooting script 8 pp. Typescript [NB film released as The Jewel Thieves Outwitted, 1913, Gifford 03743].
  • Elliott, William J. (pre-1914?) The Darkest Hour. Scenario 8 pp. Typescript.
  • Stannard, Eliot (1920), Torn Sails. Writers Draft [Format A]; [London, Ideal Films] pp. Typescript.
  • Stannard, Eliot (1921), The Bachelors' Club. Writers Draft [Format A]; [London, Ideal Films], pp. Typescript.
  • Stannard, Eliot (1921), The Bachelors' Club. Shooting script [Format D]; [London, Ideal Films], pp. Typescript.

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