Between the Covers

Softcover. Quarto. 10pp., 43pp. Bradbound in (formerly) blue wrappers. About very good with discoloration from water staining to the wraps as well as the first and last five to six pages and five interior pages with their torn corner but not affecting the text. A working script for the 26th episode of the 1952 *Hopalong Cassidy* television show starring William Boyd. Included are both the screenplay and the shooting schedule, as laid out in the first 10 blue pages, noting the number of scenes to be shot on each of the three days of filming, as well as a detailed breakdown of the scene by location ("Trail", "Ranch," Newspaper Office"). While the shooting schedule includes various pencil notations, the 43 page screenplay is marked up with note, additions, edits, and strike-thoughts on nearly every page, altering both dialogue and stage directions, with several pages of notes spilling over to the blank facing sheet. The episode, which finds Hopalong encountering kids passing out counterfeit money, was written by veteran writer Royal King Cole, who worked on many notable movie serial, including *Batman* (1943), *Captain American* (1944), and *Superman* (1948), all of which were the first live-action appearances of those icon characters.

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