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Coyote and the turtle's dream ([Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Diabetes Translation, Native Diabetes Wellness Program] ;, 2011), by Terry Lofton, United States. Indian Health Service. Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention, Native Diabetes Wellness Program (U.S.), and National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Diabetes Translation (page images at HathiTrust)
Howards End (A. A. Knopf, 1921), by E. M. Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
Children of the tenements (Macmillan, 1903), by Jacob A. Riis and C. M. Relyea (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Motion picture plays

Six Screenplays (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Robert Riskin, ed. by Patrick McGilligan (HTML at UC Press)
How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia: Royal Pub. Co., c1916), by Carl Charlton
- multiple formats at Google
- multiple formats at archive.org
The Art of Sound Pictures (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1930), by Walter B. Pitkin and William Moulton Marston, contrib. by Jesse L. Lasky (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Film: Seine Mittel, Seine Ziele (in German; Berlin: Schuster und Loeffler, 1921), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
- multiple formats at Google; US access only
- multiple formats at archive.org
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On picture-play writing : a hand-book of workmanship (F. Smith, 1912), by James Slevin (page images at HathiTrust)
The photoplay as literary art. (Educational and recreational guides, incorporated, 1936), by Walter Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
The new technique of screen writing : a practical guide to the writing and marketing of photoplays. By Tamar Lane. (Whittlesey House, 1936), by Tamar Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
The technique of screenplay writing, a book about the dramatic structure of motion pictures (Pub. by De Vores & Co., distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944), by Eugene Vale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
How to write photoplays; a thoroughly practical guide to photoplay writing... (Royal Publ. Co., 1916), by Carl Charlton (page images at HathiTrust)
Writing the photoplay (The Home Correspondence School, 1913), by J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Cinema craftmanship : a book for photoplaywrights (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Frances Taylor Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
Zhi bian wai shi te kan (1926), by Da Zhonghua bai he ying pian gong si bian ji bu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Hollywood's movie commandments; a handbook for motion picture writers and reviewers (The H. W. Wilson Company, 1937), by Olga Johanna Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
Cinematic design (American Photographic Publishing Co., 1931), by Leonard Hacker (page images at HathiTrust)
"How I did it" (The Whittingham press, 1922), by H. H. Van Loan (page images at HathiTrust)
Scenario writing today (Houghton Mifflin company, 1921), by Grace Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
Motion picture continuities: A kiss for Cinderella, The scarlet letter, The last command (Columbia University Press, 1929), by Frances Taylor Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
Scenario and screen (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1928), by Frances Taylor Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
Hints on photoplay writing (Photoplay publishing company, 1916), by Leslie T. Peacocke (page images at HathiTrust)
Screencraft (Chalmers publishing co., 1916), by Louis Reeves Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
Inside secrets of photoplay writing (Funk & Wagnalls, 1926), by Willard King Bradley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern photoplay writing, its craftsmanship; a manual demonstrating the structural and dramatic principles of the new art as paracticed by the modern photoplaywright (J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Howard T. Dimick (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of the photoplay (Dillingham, 1913), by Eustace Hale Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
Technique of the photoplay. (The Moving Picture World, 1916), by Epes Winthrop Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of photoplay writing (Colossus Publishing Co., 1917), by E. Frye Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
Photoplay plot encyclopedia; an analysis of the use in photoplays of the thirty-six dramatic situations and their subdivisions. Containing a list of all the fundamental dramatic material to be found in human experience, including the synopses of one hundred produced representative photoplays, with a detailed analysis of the situations used in each. Practical suggestions for combining situations, for testing the strength and novelty of plots, and for building plots; and an index referring to each producer, author, star, story and situation mentioned in the text. (Palmer Photoplay Corp., Dept. of Education, 1920), by Frederick Palmer and Eric Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
Elbert Moore's text book on writing the photoplay (E. Moore, 1915), by Elbert Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
The home movie scenario book (R. Manson, 1927), by Morrie Ryskind, James Englander, and C. F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of photoplay writing (H. Jordan, 1914), by Catherine Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
The photo-play; how to write, how to sell. (Photoplay Pub. Co., 1913), by John Arthur Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Kinobuch; Kinodramen von Bermann, Hasenclever, Langer, Lasker-Schüler, Keller, Asenijeff, Brod, Pinthus, Jolowicz, Ehrenstein, Pick, Rubiner, Zech, Höllriegel, Lautensack. (K. Wolff, 1914), by Richard A. Bermann and Kurt Pinthus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die zappelnde Leinwand. (Eysler, 1920), by Max Mack, Ludwig Lutz Ehrenberger, and Hans Brennert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Palmer plan handbook : photoplay writing : (Palmer Photoplay Corp., 1921), by Frederick Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Kinobuch; Kinodramen (K. Wolff, 1914), by Richard A. Bermann and Kurt Pinthus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Filmen, dens midler og maal. (Gyldendal, Nordisk forlag, 1919), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of writing photoplays : a practical treatise for professional writers, continuity and scenario writers (Writer's Digest, 1922), by Henry Albert Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
How to write for the "movies" (McClurg, 1915), by Louella O. Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
Cinema craftsmanship; a book for photoplaywrights (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921), by Frances Taylor Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
The photoplay synopsis (The Home correspondence school, 1919), by A. Van Buren Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
Photoplay writing (Falk Publishing Co., Inc., 1922), by William Lord Wright and New York Institute of Photography (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
How to write photoplays (James A. McCann, 1920), by John Emerson and Anita Loos (page images at HathiTrust)
Writing the photoplay (The Home correspondence School, 1919), by J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds (page images at HathiTrust)
Palmer plan handbook. Photoplay writing simplified and explained...; including a current glossary of technical and semi-technical words and phrases. (Palmer Photoplay Corporation, 1920), by Frederick Palmer and Hollywood Palmer Institute of Authorship (page images at HathiTrust)
How to make money writing for the movies (Cambridge house, 1943), by Robert Kanigher (page images at HathiTrust)
How to write photoplays (D. McKay, 1915), by Clarence J. Caine (page images at HathiTrust)
Why your scenario doesn't sell and how you can make it. (C. W. and C. G. Cook, 1926), by Leland Sheridan (page images at HathiTrust)
Reference scenarios. (Palmer institute of authorship, 1924), by Hollywood Palmer Institute of Authorship (page images at HathiTrust)
How to make your own motion picture plays, including 12 scenarios for amateur actors (Greenberg, 1926), by John Ernest Bechdolt (page images at HathiTrust)
Film plans and scripts (Continuity Dept., Amateur Cinema League, 1937), by James W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Technique of the photoplay (Palmer Institute of Authorship, 1924), by Frederick Palmer and Hollywood Palmer institute of authorship (page images at HathiTrust)
Scenario writing and producing for the amateur (American photographic publishing co., 1929), by Marion Norris Gleason (page images at HathiTrust)
Teaching motion-picture appreciation; a manual for teachers of high-school classes (Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University, 1933), by Elizabeth Watson Pollard and Edgar Dale (page images at HathiTrust)
La Resurrección de Cervantes : el príncipe de los ingenios ([s.n.], 1923), by D. Cervera Cañizares (page images at HathiTrust)
From manger to cross; the story of the world-famous film of the life of Jesus (Hodder and Stoughton, 1922), by Robert Henderson Bland (page images at HathiTrust)
Introduction to the photoplay : a course in photoplay appreciation offered ... with the cooperation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences : lectures delivered ... commencing February 6, 1929. (Los Angeles : [publisher not identified], 1929., 1929), by Arts University of Southern California. College of Letters and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
Dialogue Cutting Continuities, 1927-1946. (1927), by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kindai eigageki kyakuhon senshū. 1 (Shūhōkaku, 1924), by Eigageki Kyōkai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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