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In Sargent's 1916 Chapter LVIII, how should each reel of a multi-reel story end, how are the crises graded across reels, and how is a multi-part script laid out on the page?

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Sargent says the crisis diagram of a short play carries over to a long one, drawn at a gentler slope: each part should end on an acute crisis and a rising action, each crisis bigger than the one before, and in a five-reel story four leading crises end the first four parts while the last reel holds the catastrophe and climax. If the first reel already ends on a crisis as strong as a one-reel climax, the pace is too fast. He gives a mechanical reason (one-projector theatres stop between reels) and a stated reason (silent action must keep accelerating). He adds a small "drop back" allowance at the start of each reel (second reel not below about the 700th foot of the first) and layout rules: one manuscript, scene numbers running through, synopsis allowances. Rules and figures are his claims.

Sargent says the crisis diagram of a short play carries over to a long one, drawn at a gentler slope: each part should end on an acute crisis and a rising action, each crisis bigger than the one before, and in a five-reel story four leading crises end the first four parts while the last reel holds the catastrophe and climax. If the first reel already ends on a crisis as strong as a one-reel climax, the pace is too fast. He gives a mechanical reason (one-projector theatres stop between reels) and a stated reason (silent action must keep accelerating). He adds a small "drop back" allowance at the start of each reel (second reel not below about the 700th foot of the first) and layout rules: one manuscript, scene numbers running through, synopsis allowances. Rules and figures are his claims. Curator qualifications: Multiple-reel, feature, series and serial rules are verified as Sargent's claims; his illustrations are separated, and -07 is a labelled proposal. 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] Sargent says the crisis diagram of a short play carries over to a long one, drawn at a gentler slope: each part should end on an acute crisis and a rising action, each crisis bigger than the one before, and in a five-reel story four leading crises end the first four parts while the last reel holds the catastrophe and climax. If the first reel already ends on a crisis as strong as a one-reel climax, the pace is too fast. He gives a mechanical reason (one-projector theatres stop between reels) and a stated reason (silent action must keep accelerating). He adds a small "drop back" allowance at the start of each reel (second reel not below about the 700th foot of the first) and layout rules: one manuscript, scene numbers running through, synopsis allowances. Rules and figures are his claims. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate source

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