In Esenwein and Leeds (1919) Chapter XIII, what is "the photoplay stage", what space limit does it put on a scene, and what does the chapter give as numbers for it?
In the authors' definition the photoplay stage is everything the camera's range takes in, in studio or outdoors. They say it looks wide but is limited: a V-shaped area from the camera, marked with cord or wire on the floor in some studios, holds the whole set and the whole scene. A deeper set means setting the back part further off with a second pair of V lines, so the picture grows deeper and wider with the diverging lines. The chapter gives no dimensions for a stage, so a writer cannot read a size limit out of it. (1919 US trade-manual practice; the authors' account, not a measurement.)
In the authors' definition the photoplay stage is everything the camera's range takes in, in studio or outdoors. They say it looks wide but is limited: a V-shaped area from the camera, marked with cord or wire on the floor in some studios, holds the whole set and the whole scene. A deeper set means setting the back part further off with a second pair of V lines, so the picture grows deeper and wider with the diverging lines. The chapter gives no dimensions for a stage, so a writer cannot read a size limit out of it. (1919 US trade-manual practice; the authors' account, not a measurement.)
Curator qualifications: Stage as the camera's sweep, V lines, no numeric size; the chapter's figure is absent from the plain text, as noted.
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