Locating Film Scripts Online
BBC Script Library -Free downloadable scripts of BBC films, television shows, and radio shows
Daily Script - movie and tv scripts in screenwriting format
Drews Scriptorama - since 1995, huge collection of scripts of all types
Internet Movie Screenplay Database - html formatted scripts indexed by film and tv genre
Script City - most of these are for purchase, but there can be some scripts available.
Simply Scripts - huge collection of all kinds of scriptwriting
TV Writing - US and UK comedy and animation pilot scripts
For online plays, check the Theater Research guide, Finding Plays Online
If you see a screenplay and you want us to purchase, just email me!
Finding Screenplays in the Library
To find screenplays in the library you can try 5 different ways:
do a SUBJECT search in ALICE for Motion Picture Plays
search for NewMarket Shooting Script Series
keyword search on: screenplays
go to 7th floor and start at PN1997 (screenplays written up through 2000)
go to 7th floor and start at PN1997.2 (screenplays written after Dec 31 2001)
Warner Bros. Film Scripts
This collection consists of screenplays for the approximately 300 films produced by Warner Brothers before 1950. .
The 74 microfilm reels and 2 printed guides, are located in the Microform Department, First Floor, Micro. Coll. PN 1997 .A1 W376.
Alden Library cannot lend any of the Warner Brothers scripts to any entity. Warner Brothers does not have a lending library, nor are the scripts in the public domain.