Quote: Griff @ May 1 2011, 12:06 AM BSTThere was never a time when "anyone could submit work to any TV/Radio show they fancied" except in the sense that anyone could use the Royal Mail to post scripts to TV producers, who would put them straight in the bin the same as they do now.
I have in front of me a book called Writing For The Films written by the marvellously named L'Estrange Fawcett, and published in 1927. It is highly amusing.
...Few authors are in a position to argue. They are glad to take the money, and they sign their contracts without knowing in the least what will be done with their work. The result is that the studios look on the author as a bit of a mug, until, of course, they come up against a man of mettle. But as such men are few and far between, and authors have never been able to organise themselves properly, every time a contract is signed the studios attempt some fresh encroachment on the average author's rights. He usually gives them the right to make as many alterations as they like".
It does seem to be a bit of an 'imagined' bygone era. I think the world of 'email' makes rejection much more immediate, thus making it seem more common.
Quote: Vader @ May 1 2011, 12:09 AM BSTYes, as EV-D9D would say to Sophie "You're a feisty little one, but you'll soon learn some respect. I have need for you on the master's sail barge, and I think you'll fill in nicely."
They wouldn't, and they don't. They've seen my taun-taun.
