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PALMER INSTITUTE of AUTHORSHIP Stock 1925 Hollywood, CA Silent Era Screenwriting
$ 7.89
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Description
Palmer Institute of Authorship. Stock issued July 11, 1925. Incorporated March 1924 in the State of California.Embossed company seal lower center. Certificate
No. 963
was issued to
Edna Robb Webster
for two shares of common stock without par value. Company capital was
0,000
. Hand signed by company vice
president
Frederick
Palmer
and secretary. Certificate is about 9” x 11.5.” Black print with green overprint/underprint. Vignette with thee allegorical figures next to stack of books.
Certificate was issued to Edna Robb Webster, a prolific author in the 1920s and 1930s who was an expert on Mayan Culture.
The Palmer Institute of Authorship was a school in Hollywood, California for aspiring screenwriters during the silent motion picture era. The director of the Palmer Institute of Authorship was Frederick Palmer. Within Palmer’s correspondence to his scriptwriting students, he wrote: “In this great country with its vast mixture of races, all thrown into the melting pot of American tradition, there is a wonderful amount of raw material for drama. But you must transform this material – with characters and scenes – into an illusion so real that it will stir in others the emotions latent in life itself. And you must animate this reality also with something of beauty which shall justify your photodrama’s existence.”
Condition: Very Fine+
, two light vertical folds, minor creasing, no tears, minor signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
uncancelled.
Printer:
W. R. Jeffries Bank Note Printers, Los Angeles, California.
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