Here are some excerpts. Another thing to be considered by the budding photodramatist is the censorship question. In many parts of the country, certain scenes and themes are barred, and naturally the producers endeavor to keep out of their product anything that would tend to invite the censor's shears. Avoid, if you can, anything that you think would prove objectionable. This is not a question of morals but of dollars.
T here are many books that profess to teach photoplay writing.
But, unfortunately, they have been written by tyros whose knowledge of photodramaturgy has been gained from the outside. The majority of aspiring screen dramatists do not think in pictures. They think in words. All those who attempt to write for the screen should bear always in mind that producers consider themselves business men first and art-dispensers second. To some producers I have met, Don Quixote is probably a racehorse and Boccaccio a condiment, but the fact remains that if you are desirous of attaining success in writing for the screen, you'll have to adjust yourself to the existing conditions, no matter how deplorable they may seem to the literati.