No true Scotsman ^W screenplay
Node LinkNextPerson A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
Person B: "But my uncle Angus is a Scotsman and he puts sugar on his porridge."
Person A: "But no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
( No true Scotsman )
Some have argued that we can only call texts in the Hollywood-mandated format "screenplays". However, I claim that a screenplay is a Platonic ideal with many conceivable formats. In 1990 , the screenplay "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Star Trek - The Next Generation" was written in ASCII plaintext and circulated by E-mail, and used a different format than either Hollywood's or mine.
I doubt that the "1 page = 1 minute of film" argument holds much water:
It is probably inaccurate anyway.
One can get a similar ballpark estimate by printing the XHTML5 to PDF using a custom CSS stylesheet.