# Can I use Phillips (1914) to adapt a novel, a stage play or a true story into a photoplay - what does he say to keep and change?

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Phillips's chapter heading lists 'Adaptations', but the chapter body has no adaptation passage, and the whole text has no keep-and-change method for novels or plays (bounded search on 'adapt', 'dramatiz' and 'novel' terms). Nearby he says only that a long photoplay can hold a dramatization of a novel, that interior states must have a counterpart in vivid action, that a three-act play may fit in one reel, that 'true stories' need most prime facts ripped out and invented detail added, and that a writer does best to photodramatize only works he wrote himself (1914 US advice).

Phillips's chapter heading lists 'Adaptations', but the chapter body has no adaptation passage, and the whole text has no keep-and-change method for novels or plays (bounded search on 'adapt', 'dramatiz' and 'novel' terms). Nearby he says only that a long photoplay can hold a dramatization of a novel, that interior states must have a counterpart in vivid action, that a three-act play may fit in one reel, that 'true stories' need most prime facts ripped out and invented detail added, and that a writer does best to photodramatize only works he wrote himself (1914 US advice).

Curator qualifications: Heading lists Adaptations but the body has none (curator count 0 for 'adapt' in body); leads outside chapter labelled; copyright remarks are 1914 US trade advice.

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- [sourced_fact] Phillips's chapter heading lists 'Adaptations', but the chapter body has no adaptation passage, and the whole text has no keep-and-change method for novels or plays (bounded search on 'adapt', 'dramatiz' and 'novel' terms). Nearby he says only that a long photoplay can hold a dramatization of a novel, that interior states must have a counterpart in vivid action, that a three-act play may fit in one reel, that 'true stories' need most prime facts ripped out and invented detail added, and that a writer does best to photodramatize only works he wrote himself (1914 US advice). · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt

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