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If all the people who've contributed to the story got screen credit, it would look like a page from the telephone directory!

8 seconds sound clip from the The Thin Man (1936) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:37:06 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Would you like to correct that impression?

- I certainly would.

- Nobody works alone and by himself to make a picture! It's a matter of constant cooperation between producer, director, technician, actors and the writer.

- Some of the best story ideas come out of the conferences.

- How many writers would you say there are on an average picture?

- Plenty!

- Believe it or not, I've seen pictures where there were more writers than actors.

- If all the people who've contributed to the story got screen credit, it would look like a page from the telephone directory!

- You've written for both the stage and screen. Tell the folks how they're different.

- Well, pictures have less talk, but they tell more in less time. Like concentrated foods, all the good and none of the waste.

- In the theater, everything must be brought to the audience. On the screen, you take your audience wherever the camera can go.

- And here's another important point that comes right back to your 'Lux Radio Theater'.

- On the stage, the star just enters. But on the screen, she's introduced with a big close up. A picture of the star's face, many times larger than life size.

[...]

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The Thin Man (1936) Sound Clip

The Thin ManFunny quotes with sound clips from The Thin Man - radio drama based on Dashiell Hammett's book, first broadcast on Thursday August 06, 1936 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: William Powell (Nick), Myrna Loy (Nora), Porter Hall (Macauley), Minna Gombel (Mimi), Dorothy (Barbara Luddy), William Henry (Gilbert)

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