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		<title>You Tube Film School (Early Film History)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first 20 years of motion picture history had more in common with You Tube than Star Wars.The early films were often under a minute long and seldom over ten minutes. They featured animals, people kissing, people doing menial tasks—or just someone sneezing. Film was more of a novelty than business or an art form. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21537&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;No Dogs, No Actors&#8221;—Hollywood c.1908</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hollywood was established in 1853, with a single adobe hut on land outside Los Angeles, California. Growing crops was so successful there that by 1870, Hollywood became a thriving agricultural community.&#8221; History of Hollywood  In the early &#8217;80s I remember driving north on the 101 freeway in Southern California, exiting at  Santa Monica Blvd., turning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21516&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret to Being a Successful Screenwriter (Seriously)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The reason that I am a writer today is Shakespeare.&#8221; Three-time Oscar nominated screenwriter John Logan (Hugo) Here it is, in just under 1,000 words, the secret of being a successful screenwriter. (From the lips of a bona fide and currently successful screenwriter.) There was some disappointment yesterday when the Oscar nominations were announced. (Isn&#8217;t there always?) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21454&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Academy Awards (1929)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by seeing the silent film The Artist (2011) I&#8217;ve spent most of the past week or so reflecting on the early days of motion pictures, and since the Academy Award nominations are today it seems fitting to look back on the first Academy Awards on May 18, 1929. One of the most significant things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21422&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Year Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Here’s my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition.  No one else is capable of doing what you do.” Diablo Cody (Oscar-winning screenwriter—and Univ. of Iowa grad—who gave me the inspirational jolt to start this blog.) Introduction/Juno: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21386&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Silent Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The only genius to come out of the movie industry.&#8221; George Bernard Shaw (on Charlie Chaplin)  &#8220;(Chaplin) is the only person to have gone down into cinematic history without any shadow of doubt. The films he left behind can never grow old.&#8221; Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky When most people think of silent movies they think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21349&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Founder of Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All right, Mr. DeMille, I&#8217;m ready for my close-up.&#8221; Norma Desmond Sunset Blvd.  The perfect segue from a post on Gloria Swanson is one on Cecil B. DeMille. He not only had a cameo performance (as a director of  Swanson) in the 1950 movie Sunset Blvd.—but he&#8217;s been called &#8220;the founder of Hollywood.&#8221; His first film [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21335&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Star of All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am big— it&#8217;s the pictures that got small.&#8221; The faded from glory silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in Sunset Blvd.  &#8220;We didn&#8217;t need dialogue—we had faces.&#8221; Norma Desmond (Sunset Blvd.)  Yesterday it was announced that (mostly) silent film The Artist lead the race for the British Academy Film Awards with a total of 12 nominations.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21314&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing &#8220;The Jazz Singer&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You ain&#8217;t heard nothin&#8217; yet.&#8221; Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer In light of (the mostly silent) film The Artist moving forward during the award season, it&#8217;s a fitting time to look backward on the film industry. Imagine being thirty something and going to the movie theater in 1927 to see The Jazz Singer. Every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21295&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King Jr. Special</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Was not Jesus an extremist for love &#8212; &#8216;Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.&#8217; Was not Amos an extremist for justice &#8212; &#8216;Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.&#8217;&#8221; Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) I&#8217;ve never been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2579752&amp;post=21282&amp;subd=screenwritingfromiowa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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