Which failure modes does Chapter XVII of Esenwein and Leeds (1919) name for a photoplay subject or its treatment, and does the chapter say anything about old, stale or already-used situations?
1919 US trade advice. Chapter XVII names these failures: writing outside one's knowledge, inexact history (with a reported complaint to a company by an army officer), writing a timely subject without interest in it, themes that need dialogue or description, detective plots told by deduction, a lead without enough sympathy or motive (their worked example is two film versions of The Bells, one of 1918), and costume plays without a strong story. The chapter does not treat old or stale situations: those words have 0 hits in it; its only related line is that one basic idea is worked out differently by each writer.
1919 US trade advice. Chapter XVII names these failures: writing outside one's knowledge, inexact history (with a reported complaint to a company by an army officer), writing a timely subject without interest in it, themes that need dialogue or description, detective plots told by deduction, a lead without enough sympathy or motive (their worked example is two film versions of The Bells, one of 1918), and costume plays without a strong story. The chapter does not treat old or stale situations: those words have 0 hits in it; its only related line is that one basic idea is worked out differently by each writer.
Curator qualifications: Failure modes and the stale-situation scoped negative reproduce. The Bells account is the authors' report.
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