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How many scenes, leaders, cut-ins and inserts are in the five-reel specimen script in Chapter XX of Writing the Photoplay (1919), and does the script show where its reels begin?

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The specimen is a 156-scene continuity numbered 1 to 156 in one unbroken run (lines 10414 to 11855). It prints no reel marks, and the authors tell writers to number straight through, so scenes per reel cannot be read off it. Five equal reels would be 31, 31, 32, 31 and 31 scenes (an assumption of this worker), a mean of 31.2, inside the authors' 25 to 50. It has 80 leaders in 997 words: 22 before-scene leaders (282 words) and 58 cut-in leaders (715 words); 61 scenes (39.1 percent) carry at least one. It scripts no letter, telegram or news-item insert. 26 scenes (16.7 percent) are close-ups or busts. All counts are code_derived_inference on the 1919 reprint text; the script is the pre-production script, not the film. (1919 US practice.)

The specimen is a 156-scene continuity numbered 1 to 156 in one unbroken run (lines 10414 to 11855). It prints no reel marks, and the authors tell writers to number straight through, so scenes per reel cannot be read off it. Five equal reels would be 31, 31, 32, 31 and 31 scenes (an assumption of this worker), a mean of 31.2, inside the authors' 25 to 50. It has 80 leaders in 997 words: 22 before-scene leaders (282 words) and 58 cut-in leaders (715 words); 61 scenes (39.1 percent) carry at least one. It scripts no letter, telegram or news-item insert. 26 scenes (16.7 percent) are close-ups or busts. All counts are code_derived_inference on the 1919 reprint text; the script is the pre-production script, not the film. (1919 US practice.) Curator qualifications: 156 scenes and 26 close-ups reproduce. Leader counts and the equal-split reel model are worker derivations. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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  • [inference] The specimen is a 156-scene continuity numbered 1 to 156 in one unbroken run (lines 10414 to 11855). It prints no reel marks, and the authors tell writers to number straight through, so scenes per reel cannot be read off it. Five equal reels would be 31, 31, 32, 31 and 31 scenes (an assumption of this worker), a mean of 31.2, inside the authors' 25 to 50. It has 80 leaders in 997 words: 22 before-scene leaders (282 words) and 58 cut-in leaders (715 words); 61 scenes (39.1 percent) carry at least one. It scripts no letter, telegram or news-item insert. 26 scenes (16.7 percent) are close-ups or busts. All counts are code_derived_inference on the 1919 reprint text; the script is the pre-production script, not the film. (1919 US practice.) · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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