Screenwriting : Artifact: The First Studio Reader's Coverage Notes. . . by Tony S.

18: all of the above

How can 2 and 12 exist without robbery, kidnapping, murder, suicide, harrowing death-bed and all scenes of an unpleasant nature. What's left? Pillow fights?

Look a lot like some of the recent rejection letters I've gotten from publishers about my novels!

It would appear the above form aligned with the days of Will Hays and the subsequent Hays Act of 1934. Worth a Google if not familiar. It was the seed of today's movie rating system and holds quite a contentious history.

After 100 years of films it is hard to be truly original.

There has been no new stories since Frankenstein. Just new takes.

But we are being hard in an old document.

There are only a few there that worry me. The rest I am okay with as feedback.

Philip Sedgwick This looked earlier than Hays to me. This studio was folded into Warners way before Hays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essanay_Studios

But what is "Overstocked?" Too many characters?

Good find, Tony. I see they aligned with Lubin, who did a lot in Arizona in the early days.