What producing policies does Phillips (1914) say a photoplay writer must fit, and what reason does he give for fitting them?
Phillips says every manufacturing company has a producing policy or characteristic (his examples: Kalem war dramas, Edison topical themes), keeps salaried staff writers for many typical releases, and has stars who must be kept busy; the writer should study their needs. The reason: the editor buys what the company needs now, not what is merely good, and a conference including the managing director decides. On spectacle he reports that companies both want and fear it and predicts they will come to prefer simple drama. These are the author's assertions in a trade manual, with no studio document cited.
Phillips says every manufacturing company has a producing policy or characteristic (his examples: Kalem war dramas, Edison topical themes), keeps salaried staff writers for many typical releases, and has stars who must be kept busy; the writer should study their needs. The reason: the editor buys what the company needs now, not what is merely good, and a conference including the managing director decides. On spectacle he reports that companies both want and fear it and predicts they will come to prefer simple drama. These are the author's assertions in a trade manual, with no studio document cited.
Curator qualifications: Studio policy statements (Kalem, Edison) are Phillips's, no records cited.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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