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Also, many aspiring screenwriters make up fake production company names and slap them on the covers of their specs in the hope that doing so will make them seem like they are more significant players than they really are (вЂњI canвЂ™t be a nobody вЂ“ I have my own production company!вЂќ).

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ThereвЂ™s something vaguely tacky about the practice (the registration is valid whether itвЂ™s indicated on the cover or not and everyone in the industry knows it), as well as a little adversarial (putting the registration number on your cover suggests you are expecting people to attempt to steal your script and you are warning them not to try, which is not the friendliest way to approach people who you want to take a liking to you and your material).

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However, professional screenwriters donвЂ™t put registration numbers on their covers.

The front cover is free of WGA registration numbers and fake production company names Yes, it is important to protect your work and the best way to do that is to both copyright it and register it with the WGA (the copyright is the key piece of protection, and the WGA registration is a very helpful backup).

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If, however, a spec is one hundred-twenty pages or less, then I know the writer has paid attention to industry strictures, but (more importantly) has figured out how to focus, structure, edit, and pace his/her story so that it can play out in the proper amount of time. It also tells me that the script will more than likely be overwritten, unfocused, poorly structured, and/or poorly paced, as these are the usual causes of an overlong screenplay. If a script runs longer than one hundred-twenty pages, that tells me the writer doesnвЂ™t know the industry standards or, worse, thinks that he/she is an exception to them. Given that one page of screenplay usually takes about a minute to unfold on screen (heavy action usually takes a little more time to play out dialogue a little less), this means that a spec script should run somewhere between ninety and one hundred-twenty pages, with the industryвЂ™s current preferred average being one hundred-ten. Besides, as we all know, more often than not thereвЂ™s nothing in the narrative content of these overlong films that warrant their excessive length - for most, the extreme running time usually hurts the story, especially the pacing, rather than helps it). The script is short вЂ“ between 90 and 110 pages The average length of a feature film is between 100 and 120 minutes (yes, I know that a lot of modern movies run longer than two hours, but those films are usually the result of self-indulgent directors abusing their right to final cut and does not reflect a desire on the part of the industry at large to make longer movies вЂ“ studios and theater owners still prefer pictures to be two hours or less so that they can screen them as many times a day as possible and so want screenplays sized accordingly.

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Take a look at our Feature, TV Pilot & Short Film Fund Contests.Here are those 12 elementsвЂ“those 12 signs of a promising spec: The list includes mostly traditional feature scripts, but weвЂ™ve also included a few others, including Tennessee WilliamsвЂ™ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (a film version was later adapted) and a prose version of French writer-director Albert LamorisseвЂ™s poignant short film The Red Balloon.

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In honor of this golden era, Shore Scripts has compiled a list of 41 of the top screenplays from the decade that are available for free use online. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard wowed audiences as an aging silent film heroine and playwright Mary Chase made her Broadway hit Harvey a darling of the big screen. The 1950s also saw women in leading roles in front of and behind the camera. But arguably, the directors of the time-whether it was Japanese titan Akira Kurosawa or English вЂњMaster of SuspenseвЂќ Alfred Hitchcock-were just as famous as their on-screen starlets.Д«eyond the dark Hollywood crime movies or film noir of the decade, gritty Westerns like Rio Bravo, post-war films like Hiroshima Mon Amour and sci-fi flicks like The Thing From Another World also dominated the 1950s. Leading Hollywood starlets like James Dean, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando also created a celebrity culture that has lasted to this day.

Several popular movies from the era, such as The War of the Worlds, have been remade over the subsequent decades.

Films like Vertigo and North by Northwest are now beloved classics. Critics and fans alike have long hailed the 1950s as the вЂњgolden ageвЂќ of Hollywood.