....just wondering.

Actually, it happened long ago in a small town known simply as: "Chival Timago", right off the coast of Spain.  Anywho, a young lad of about seven or so was buying an ice cream bar from a local vendor.  The vendors name was "Vertigo" and he only had three fingers on is left hand.  Fortunately he had eight on his right hand, so by people bad at arithmatic he appeared to be a normal ten fingered citizen.  This of course has nothing to do with the formation of the script format.

I suggest you look it up on google.

funny. that's....that's funny. hey let me give you eh..a hand. clap....clap...clap.

Hitch,

No 'one' person, necessarily , INVENTED the format.It actually evolved based on the needs of the production companies and studios through the ages. The roots of the format are grown from theatrical productions, though.If you check out some scripts past and compare them with the present, you will notice numerous changes in style and accepted presentation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenplay

ah...i thought Shakespere invented it.

You're all wrong! A long time ago a man very high up in hollywood thought, "hmm, it would be funny to fuck with screenwriters everywhere" so he made all these crazy demands hiding under the name 'formatting'. But that was long ago and we have software to do it for us...That sick guy....

Quoted from Alfred Hitchcock ah...i thought Shakespere invented it.

Stageplay and screenplay formatting are very different.


Phil

Someone who is sitting in a small 8 by 10 room right now who was driven insane thinking about what he would do with all the royalty money.

Quoted Text Stageplay and screenplay formatting are very different.

Not really. I mean, here's play format:

                                MRS NONAME WALKS
                                OVER AND PLACES
                                THE MONEY DOWN.
    
                         NONAME:
                    Bla bla bla

Screenplay:

Mrs. Noname walks over and palces the money down.

                        NONAME
                     Bla bla bla.

              
                  

Go read something by Shakespeare.  That's play formatting.

Well what I type was modern paly formatting.

The format you used looks like something out of a Mike Myers script

Maybe they made it because, on typewriter's it was the easier way to write "one page=one min"?

Gary Carey's biography of Anita Loos, published by Bloomsbury Publishing 1988.
One of Hollywood's first screenwriters. 1893-1981.