5 seconds sound clip from the The Thin Man (1936) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:37:13 in the radio play.
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- 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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