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Screenwriting Advice From The Past: Loos & Emerson (1920)
2 min readSep 24, 2022
In my ongoing research into screenwriting, I discovered the book “How to Write Photoplays,” written in 1920 by Anita Loos and her husband John Emerson.
Loos was a superstar, the first well-known writer of what were then called ‘photoplays’. This series went through the book chapter by chapter spotlighting elements that are as applicable today as they were back then.
The Continuity [Part 1]
The Continuity [Part 2]
