What does Phillips (1914) say comedy requires, how does he separate polite from rollicking comedy and farce, and what does he warn against?
Phillips (1914) calls comedy the hardest form to write and the easiest to sell, and divides it into Polite Comedy (grace, repression, humor, no villainies or horrors) and Rollicking Comedy, whose rule is that everything - idea, title, plot, every scene, insert, character, setting and action - must be comical, with the funny action described in detail and delineated good-naturedly. He bars satire, animus and misfortune as subjects and treats slap-stick as a coarse parasite of farce and the usual split-reel plotless farce as a mere fragment. Difficulty and sales claims have no evidence in the chapter.
Phillips (1914) calls comedy the hardest form to write and the easiest to sell, and divides it into Polite Comedy (grace, repression, humor, no villainies or horrors) and Rollicking Comedy, whose rule is that everything - idea, title, plot, every scene, insert, character, setting and action - must be comical, with the funny action described in detail and delineated good-naturedly. He bars satire, animus and misfortune as subjects and treats slap-stick as a coarse parasite of farce and the usual split-reel plotless farce as a mere fragment. Difficulty and sales claims have no evidence in the chapter.
Curator qualifications: Comedy rules verified; linking the twenty-minute laughter remark to one reel is the worker's inference.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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