WRITING FOR FILMS
BERNARD SHAW'S VIEWS
Mr. Bernard Shaw, who started recently for a cruise to the West Indies in the Blue Star liner Arandora Star, informed a press representative at Southampton that ho would refuse to havo anything to do with films until they would leavo his script alone. " I will not havo them tomfooling with my writings," he declared. "Pictures aro very fascinating, but producers simply do not know how to put them together. They are frequently silly and incompetent. " Many American films consist of nothing more than people rushing up and down stairs. Charlie Chaplin is tho best story-teller from a motion picture standpoint, for if lie puts some stairs in a picture, then he falls down them instead of walking down. " Tho notion that there is any difference in writing plays for the stago and screen is entirely erroneous. If a man can write a play he can write a screen scenario. George Arliss, in his 'Disraeli,' was the first man really to show us that you can perform a play on the screen as jvell as on the stage./'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)
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184WRITING FOR FILMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)
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