"Revealing and entertaining ... a virtual how-to-do-it handbook for would-be Hollywood producers. " -BATON ROUGE SUNDAY ADVOCATE "Absorbing... the process of transferring a story into script and into film is interestingly presented in this collaboration. " —BIRMINGHAM NEWS "An interesting and different book... may well be the most unified and useful contribution which the movie A WALK IN THE SPRING RAIN will make to the history of the cinema. " -KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL FICTION INTO FILM is a unique study of the making of a major motion picture—from original story to screenplay to finished film. It consists of (1) a short novel, A WALK IN THE SPRING RAIN; (2) the screenplay adapted from it; and (3) a commentary which discusses in detail the actual making of the film, from inception to completed product. Although the book describes production terms and such technical details as scoring, editing and looping, it is primarily concerned with the problems and techniques of transforming a work from one medium into another, of adapting a literary property into a cinematic one.