Screenwriters: Words Into Image

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

How it feels

This PBS series has six half-hour episodes, each about a different American screenwriter. It talks with writers like William Goldman and Neil Simon about their careers and how they work.

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What happens

Screenwriters: Words Into Image (1982) is a PBS documentary series produced in the United States and featuring six 30-minute episodes. Each explored the work of a single significant American screenwriter. The series was directed by Terry Sanders and Freida Lee Mock. Individual episodes featured Carl Foreman, who was blacklisted in the 1950s after being classified as an uncooperative witness by the House Unamerican Activities Committee and worked for years in Great Britain; William Goldman, Paul Mazursky, Eleanor Perry, Neil Simon, and Robert Towne. The series was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series in 1983. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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