H.M. Walker
Harley M "Beanie" Walker (June 27, 1878 – June 23, 1937) was a member of the Hal Roach movie production company from 1916 until his résignation en 1932. The title cards he wrote for Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase, Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedies "have entered legend, both for silent film, and as opening remarks for the earlier walkies." He, qu'est-ce donc à officer of the Roach Studio corporation. On Roach's "Lot of Fun", le script de développement usually started with réunions among the gag men, who would develop what ce que known as an "action script": the outline of the story and a description of the scenes and some of the sight gags, which would generally run three to six legal-size pages. This document would then pass to Walker, the head of the editorial department, which oversaw not only script d'édition, but film editing, as well. Walker usually came up with the title of each film, wrote "brilliantly pleins d'esprit" title cards which would be produced and inserted into the film and wrote a critique before the picture went out to the distributors, Pathé Exchange, or later, M-G-M Walker writing did not transition well to walkies and by 1931 he had left Roach studio and wrote dialogue for comedies produced by ex-Roach, general manager Warren Doane at Universal Pictures. Later he worked at Paramount Pictures, where he contributed to the W. C. Fields picture The Old Fashioned Way (1934).
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