The Warner script materials have been classified within four categories: Source, Research, Script, and Postproduction. Not every title has material within each category. Items have been assigned generic terms and arranged chronologically within each category.
Source Materials: The terms within the Source category are Novel, Play, Short Story, and Plot Summary. For the first three, place and date of publication are shown if the item is in published form. Absence of place indicates that the item is a typescript. A Plot Summary condenses briefly the action of a source.
Research materials: This category has no division of terms.
Postproduction materials: The terms within this category are Reader Synopsis, which describes the finished film, or Postproduction, followed by a description of some other version generated by the film.
Script materials: The terms within the Script category are Story Outline, Treatment, Screenplay, Temporary, Revised Temporary, Final, and Revised Final. (In addition, there may be Comments on a preceding item.)
A Story Outline is usually written in short form, tells the basic plot elements, does not use cinematic terms, and is fewer than twenty-five pages in length. A Treatment is longer, begins to break down the story into scenes, and may include dialogue and shot descriptions. A Screenplay is a complete breakdown of the film into scenes and shots. It is like a shooting script (Temporary, Revised Temporary, Final, Revised Final) in structure but different in status and often in format. A shooting script has official designation of status.
A term within quotation marks and parentheses shows the writer's original term for the item when it is distinctly different from this inventory's term.
A working title on an item is given when it is different from the final title of the film.
A writer's name is given as it appears on the item. The spelling of a name may vary from title to title.
“Annotated” indicates a significant amount of annotation. “Incomplete” may be interpreted as either lacking parts or unfinished.
“Undated” signifies that no date appears on the item. “With revisions to” means that the item contains pages that show later dates because they are rewrites and substitutes for earlier pages. Approximate numbers of pages (example: circa 175pp) are rounded to the nearest five.
