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Filmmaker's Dictionary, James A. Conrad co-author, with Emmy Award-winning producer-director Ralph S. Singleton. Over 5,000 terms; the film industry's largest reference dictionary. 2000; Lone Eagle Publishing, a division of Nielsen Business Media, owners of The Hollywood Reporter, Back Stage, Billboard, Adweek, Hollywood Creative Directory, the annual ShoWest film convention, and other properties.
The Model-Actor's Dictionary, James A. Conrad author. Over 1,700 terms from modeling, acting, television commercials, music videos, etc.; the first dictionary published on the modeling industry. 1988; Note: copyright interests in both dictionaries were purchased by Lone Eagle Publishing, a division of Nielsen Business Media, in 1999.
Fiction and nonfiction writing projects:
Fairy Tale Scripment, 135 pages, for a 3-D fantasy feature film. An expanded retelling of the Charles Perrault fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty (La Belle au Bois dormant, 1697) about a spellbound sleeping princess awakened by the kiss of a future prince. This live-action version is set in England in the early ninth century and high-tech twenty-third century. Inktip | Fairy Tale Casting Survey.
"The Girl of My Dreams" Romantic comedy feature spec screenplay. The misadventures of two single L.A. guys on a road trip to Las Vegas to find the Internet bride who swindled them. Written by Anna Tkatch & Marc Olson & James A. Conrad. Anna Tkatch is a Writers Guild of America, West member. Marc Olson is an editor at The Los Angeles Times. 119 pages. Status: available.
"The Wizards of Roswell" A short screenplay. A mock documentary that presents an intriguing new theory about the famous flying saucer crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Sit-down interview format. Requires three dwarf actors, an actor in a period U.S. Air Force officer uniform, and a President Truman impersonator. Comedy. 21 pages. Status: available. Inktip.
"Pick a Model, Any Model" A short screenplay. A street magician out shooting magic tricks with his television crew on a city sidewalk encounters a group of models from a reality show. Comedy. 9 pages. Status: available. Inktip.
"Supergirl Origin Movie" A feature screenplay writing sample. An adaptation of the DC Comics character (the original Kara Zor-El from Krypton). Initiated before the 1984 film starring Helen Slater. 137 pages. Comments from industry readers: "Highly entertaining and visually exciting . . . Action scenes jump to life, providing fantastic visual descriptions . . . am also impressed by your dialogue . . . Clearly you know your subject and it shows." film industry story analyst (studio/agency reader). | "You have a good visual sense. Your descriptive writing is excellent. . . . faithful to the comic books." produced screenwriter-director. Status: available.
"Star Trek" media project A picture book or display project of up to 70 rare and never-before-seen color production photos from the classic 1960s television series Star Trek from my collection of nearly 1,400 35mm outtake and workprint clippings purchased from Gene Roddenberry during a period in the early to mid 1970s. Includes clapboard shots, special effects, and actors on marks and post-scene. These are part of the same large group of film clippings mentioned in the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herbert Solow and Robert H. Justman.
Various nonfiction and fiction projects in development not listed here.