How did Esenwein and Leeds (1919) tell a free-lance writer to address, package, stamp and send a photoplay script to a studio, and which parts are their advice and which are reported company practice?
1919 US trade advice, not law. In Chapter XXI the authors say to address the Editor or the Manuscript Department of one film company at a time, send the script flat and unfastened (folded at most twice) in an outer envelope with a self-addressed, fully stamped return envelope inside, state a price only as 'Submitted at usual rates' if at all, and enclose no letter without special reason. The only reported company practice in this part is one company that refuses carbon copies; the authors advise a clean fresh copy instead. A February 1919 return stamp cost three cents.
1919 US trade advice, not law. In Chapter XXI the authors say to address the Editor or the Manuscript Department of one film company at a time, send the script flat and unfastened (folded at most twice) in an outer envelope with a self-addressed, fully stamped return envelope inside, state a price only as 'Submitted at usual rates' if at all, and enclose no letter without special reason. The only reported company practice in this part is one company that refuses carbon copies; the authors advise a clean fresh copy instead. A February 1919 return stamp cost three cents.
Curator qualifications: Submission mechanics (one firm at a time, flat script, return envelope, 'Submitted at usual rates') are the authors' 1919 advice; historical only.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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