How were leaders (before-the-scene and cut-in) and inserts (letters, telegrams, news items) written into a 1913-era numbered continuity, when did the authors say to use them, and what cautions do they give?
The authors define a leader (sub-title before a scene), a cut-in (dialogue leader inside a scene) and an insert (letter, telegram, news item shown inside a scene), and give notation: a before-scene leader is written ahead of the numbered scene; a letter is flagged "On screen, letter", given in full, then closed with "Back to scene"; busts and close-ups get their own scene numbers. They say to use inserts only when action cannot make the point, to prefer a letter or news item over a plain leader, to avoid a leader straight after the title, and not to under-use leaders either. Label: 1913 practice. The pinned Gutenberg text is the Revised Edition (title page "Copyright 1913 / Copyright 1919"; it mentions 1918 releases and "February, 1919" postage), so some passages are 1919 revisions and are not 1913 practice. Excerpts drop Gutenberg italic underscores; line numbers are those of the CRLF file as pinned.
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- [sourced_fact] The authors define a leader (sub-title before a scene), a cut-in (dialogue leader inside a scene) and an insert (letter, telegram, news item shown inside a scene), and give notation: a before-scene leader is written ahead of the numbered scene; a letter is flagged "On screen, letter", given in full, then closed with "Back to scene"; busts and close-ups get their own scene numbers. They say to use inserts only when action cannot make the point, to prefer a letter or news item over a plain leader, to avoid a leader straight after the title, and not to under-use leaders either. Label: 1913 practice. The pinned Gutenberg text is the Revised Edition (title page "Copyright 1913 / Copyright 1919"; it mentions 1918 releases and "February, 1919" postage), so some passages are 1919 revisions and are not 1913 practice. Excerpts drop Gutenberg italic underscores; line numbers are those of the CRLF file as pinned. · locator: Writing the Photoplay source
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