Which failure modes of animated-cartoon comedy and plotting does Lutz (1920, ch. X) name or imply, and how good is his evidence for each?
Lutz names four failure modes: story additions by an artist without the dramatic idea (confuse the story), too much business (retards the plot), lettered dialogue inside the drawings (breaks continuity), and a bare string of incidents or a single calamity (not enough). A fifth is implied by his pause argument: continuous laughter fatigues the audience. All are assertions by one author; the laughter-wave support is his recollection of a live-action film and of the hill-climbing gag, with no audience data.
Lutz names four failure modes: story additions by an artist without the dramatic idea (confuse the story), too much business (retards the plot), lettered dialogue inside the drawings (breaks continuity), and a bare string of incidents or a single calamity (not enough). A fifth is implied by his pause argument: continuous laughter fatigues the audience. All are assertions by one author; the laughter-wave support is his recollection of a live-action film and of the hill-climbing gag, with no audience data.
Curator qualifications: Failure modes; pause/laughter-waves evidence is Lutz's recollection.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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