Charles Mortimer Peck — Scenario Man (1916) 🇺🇸
Peck, scenario man, is on his way East
Charles Mortimer Peck, especially engaged by the Essanay Company six months ago to write a number of original features for Henry B. Walthall, has finished his task and will soon leave Chicago for other fields of endeavor — probably New York; or he may return to the Pacific Coast where he scored a large number of pronounced successes.
Mr. Peck, who was a newspaper man of note, began his motion picture career with William Fox, in New York, four years ago. He was next associated with the Balboa Company, Long Beach, Calif., where he remained nearly a year. For a few months he successfully free lanced among the companies operating in and near Los Angeles. He then joined the staff of the American Company of Santa Barbara where he attracted the attention of Essanay.
Mr. Peck is a prolific writer of strong dramatic features and one of the foremost experts in the country in the matter of continuity. Directors who have produced his plays say his manuscripts are so nearly perfect that they can be put on without change of scene or substitute. During the coming months Mr. Walthall will interpret the leading roles in a number of original features written by Mr. Peck.
Mr. Peck has had seventy-two dramas on the screen and is the author of a series of twelve three-reel plays which he expects to market when he reaches New York. It will be two or three weeks before Mr. Peck will be at liberty, after which he will take a short rest and then jump into his writing harness again.
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The Etcher and His Art Shown in Pictographs
Walter Raymond Duff [Walter R. Duff (1879–1967)], one of the most skillful etchers in the world consented recently to pose for motion pictures and give the public a more intimate knowledge of the more mechanical details required to produce a finished etching. These pictures were taken by Paramount and will be released in a forthcoming edition of the magazine-on-the-screen the Paramount Pictographs.
Collection: Motion Picture News, October 1916
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