May: Classic 30s Movie Month
Every several months since 2013, we’ve had a Classic Movie Month in which I invite GITS readers to volunteer writing up an overview of one of their favorite movies. We’ve moved through this process decade by decade, the idea being to create an online resource for writers to have at their disposal when studying movies and movie history. Thus far we’ve covered these decades:
Let’s make May “30s Movies Month”!
I’m looking for 22 volunteers to write guest posts to go live Monday through Friday in May, each entry featuring a 30s movie you think screenwriters should know about and hopefully at some point watch. If more people volunteer, then we can expand the series into 30 posts.
Here is a template you can use for your guest post:
Movie Title
Year
Writers (screenwriters and any authors whose books were used as the basis for adaptation)
Lead Actors (Just the main ones)
Director
IMDb Plot Summary (You can find that directly under the Your Rating box. If you don’t feel the summary does the story justice, feel free to write up a logline of your own.)
Why I Think This Is A Classic 40s Movie (Feel free to write as much as you’d like up to a half-page or so.)
My Favorite Moment In The Movie
My Favorite Dialogue In the Movie (IMDB has a Quotes section for almost every movie, so you can find key dialogue in your movie’s site.)
Key Things You Should Look For When Watching This Movie
Please use this exact template to help me in the editing process.
If you need to look at some examples of previous posts, go here, here, here, here, or here and click on any link.
If you can find a YouTube clip from the film or its trailer, please include that URL.
When you are done with your guest post, you may simply copy and paste the content into an email to me or create a Word document and attach it to an email.
I will run the posts in the order I receive them.
If you are interested in doing a guest post, please indicate in Comments or send me an email with the movie you would like to cover.
For inspiration, here are some images from classic 30s movies:
Here’s your chance to feature a personal favorite from the decade of the 40s. And for every contributor, I will send a special gust of creative juju your way. Click REPLY and see you in comments!
Our current list of volunteers:
Bride of Frankenstein — Marija Nielsen
Bringing Up Baby — Melinda Mahaffey
Captain — John Arends
Duck Soup — David Joyner
It Happened One Night — JoniB22
Make Way for Tomorrow — Susan W
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — Amber Watt
Rebecca — Katha
Sabotage — Jeff Xilon
Stagecoach — Thenewlight
The 39 Steps — Felicity Flesher
The Adventures of Robin Hood — RealThndrMonkey
The Petrified Forest — supergloss
The Women — Liz Clarke
Topper — Wayne Kline
Let’s see if we can round up 7 more volunteers!
Thanks to all the volunteers! Target April 27 as a due date for your movie posts.
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