What do the stock phrases on a 1916 rejection slip ('plot too old', 'too heavy', 'would not pass') mean, and should I trust a checked slip, according to Sargent (Ch. LXIII)?
1916 practice (Ch. LXIII paras 8-9). Sargent glosses twelve stock editorial comments (plot too old, plot too weak, too much plot, not enough plot for length, not enough action, too long, would not pass, theme used before, theme too like a story we have, too heavy, too much slapstick, not strong enough) and warns that a checked slip may be ticked by an office boy and that many reasons apply only to that studio. His method is to decide whether each comment applies by comparing it with the script. Grouping the twelve into novelty, plot strength and length, studio fit and censorship is this worker's synthesis, not Sargent's.
1916 practice (Ch. LXIII paras 8-9). Sargent glosses twelve stock editorial comments (plot too old, plot too weak, too much plot, not enough plot for length, not enough action, too long, would not pass, theme used before, theme too like a story we have, too heavy, too much slapstick, not strong enough) and warns that a checked slip may be ticked by an office boy and that many reasons apply only to that studio. His method is to decide whether each comment applies by comparing it with the script. Grouping the twelve into novelty, plot strength and length, studio fit and censorship is this worker's synthesis, not Sargent's.
Curator qualifications: Self-criticism rules, the twelve stock rejection glosses and the ten-question test are verified as Sargent's text; his own run on Example A is reported as his reading. The 'no audience trial' scope claim holds: 'spectator' appears only as an interest criterion.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Ch. LXIII paras 8-9). Sargent glosses twelve stock editorial comments (plot too old, plot too weak, too much plot, not enough plot for length, not enough action, too long, would not pass, theme used before, theme too like a story we have, too heavy, too much slapstick, not strong enough) and warns that a checked slip may be ticked by an office boy and that many reasons apply only to that studio. His method is to decide whether each comment applies by comparing it with the script. Grouping the twelve into novelty, plot strength and length, studio fit and censorship is this worker's synthesis, not Sargent's. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. LXIII offsets per candidate source
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