In Sargent's 1916 manual (Ch. XLIX), what is the order of first steps for adapting a novel, short story or play into a photoplay, and how does he define adaptation?
In 1916 practice as Sargent states it (Ch. XLIX paras 9-13), adaptation is making a novel, short story or play into photoplay form. His order: get to know the story, every character (not only the leads) and the author's mode of thought; isolate the main plot from side material; dissect narrative from plot; then arrange the retained events in chronological order. He gives no scene, page or reel counts for the process. The Mary/Jim lifesaving and Reginald/Venice passages are his illustrations, not rules.
In 1916 practice as Sargent states it (Ch. XLIX paras 9-13), adaptation is making a novel, short story or play into photoplay form. His order: get to know the story, every character (not only the leads) and the author's mode of thought; isolate the main plot from side material; dissect narrative from plot; then arrange the retained events in chronological order. He gives no scene, page or reel counts for the process. The Mary/Jim lifesaving and Reginald/Venice passages are his illustrations, not rules.
Curator qualifications: Adaptation order, source-type rules, event ordering, the bounded negatives on dialogue and inner thought, and reconstruction are verified as Sargent's text. The claim/example/market split in -07 holds.
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- [sourced_fact] In 1916 practice as Sargent states it (Ch. XLIX paras 9-13), adaptation is making a novel, short story or play into photoplay form. His order: get to know the story, every character (not only the leads) and the author's mode of thought; isolate the main plot from side material; dissect narrative from plot; then arrange the retained events in chronological order. He gives no scene, page or reel counts for the process. The Mary/Jim lifesaving and Reginald/Venice passages are his illustrations, not rules. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIX offsets per candidate source
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