Oscars: 'Story by' and 'Title change' files


I loved these files. Like little seeds.
As soon as there is announcement that someone has bought the rights to a script or a book or memoir there will be a little blurb in one of the trades- and then it starts as a card in this file.
Sometimes a faux title is given to a film in order to keep under wraps the finer details.
A fine example is this file on " A Boy's Life", a film in production under guise of this innocuous title. It was released later as E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial

Films include international titles, short films, documentaries.