This short subject, touting screen writers, starts with a quote from HAMLET, so I might as well start this review with another. I'm a great believer in the written word, and while a picture may be worth a thousand of them, when you're doing a movie, you've got to start with words.
This short is one of several productions by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences offering some thoughts on each other several specialists who make a movie. It's rare when an actor comes up with his own lines on the spot; it's rare enough that's there's a term for it, "ad libbing". Almost invariably, it starts with some writer being anti-social at a typewriter, or nowadays, a computer.
It has lots of clips from well-known movies.
This short is one of several productions by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences offering some thoughts on each other several specialists who make a movie. It's rare when an actor comes up with his own lines on the spot; it's rare enough that's there's a term for it, "ad libbing". Almost invariably, it starts with some writer being anti-social at a typewriter, or nowadays, a computer.
It has lots of clips from well-known movies.