Thanks Raija and Kerstin,
This is interesting information about the history of screenwriting.
Hugo
Op 4-jan-12, om 23:10 heeft Raija Talvio het volgende geschreven:
> Dear colleagues.
>
> William Archer was influential in the English-speaking world and in
> his manual “Playmaking” (1912), he discusses widely the 3-act
> structure and the 5-act structure using Shakespeare and Ibsen as
> references.
>
> As for movies, in “Film Technique and Film Acting”, Pudovkin
> compares the acts of stage plays to film reels; discusses the
> relationship of sequences to reels; discusses the pacing of the
> scenario with reel lengths in mind. The texts are from the 20s and
> 30s.
>
> Both books are available online.
>
> Paul Joseph Gulino in his book “Screenwriting: The Sequence
> Approach” (2004) suggests that in 1910s, “act” sometimes meant the
> same as “reel”. And that until the 50s screenplays were often
> written in reel-length sequences identified by letters (A, B,C…),
> generally 8 sequences in a feature length film.
>
> In my research I have come across an article in a Finnish film
> magazine from 1939 advising aspiring writers that the plot should be
> divided into sequences, 5 to 8 in number. Also Frances Marion in
> “How to Write and Sell film Stories”(1938) mentions sequences and
> reels, but not acts.
>
> Writing by sequences is a tradition still in use as presented by
> Gulino in his book. The method was introduced into the curricula of
> the screenwriting departments of Columbia University and the USC by
> Frank Daniel, who was the head of FAMU film school in Prague before
> 1968. Daniel himself had studied in VGIK Moscow (where Pudovkin had
> once been a teacher).
>
> Best wishes
>
> Raija Talvio
>
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