Excerpt from The Home Cinema Individuality of film play is the one saviour of the amateur, and by that I mean the real individuality which enables a man to think out his own plots and schemes for his film, not the inferior individuality that puts a few deft touches to another man's scenario and script. The avowed object of this latter part, then, is to stimulate thought on the subject; hence the details of any ideas given are in such form that a certain amount of thought is needed to put them into practice. It is highly probable that the reader who sets out to do this will, before he has finished, have evolved an entirely new scheme subtly sug gested in some obscure way by the original. To show this process, in the chapter detailing a game of chess and an old soldier, I have printed ideas as they occurred to me. I was asked, Can you make a film about chess? And the resulting and successful scenario was evolved. Every example given is strictly practicable, may be attempted with confidence, and good films will result. Many of the ideas are printed in this country for the first time, and starting points for thought are given covering the whole field of amateur cinematography, even to the possibility of earning cash, and if every reader obtains from my work the germ of but one bright idea' for either screening or making his films, I Will be content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.