Which checks does Sargent (1916, Ch. XLIV) give for keeping time, place and costume continuous across scenes, which failure modes does he name, and does he cover props?
1916 practice (Sargent, ch. XLIV paras 8-26). Time: tell the audience when the action jumps (by inference or statement); a definite lapse needs a time leader; where time and fact are unimportant, break with another scene, and prefer a fact leader to a time leader. Place: leaving one room and entering another implies adjoining rooms; different floors need a stair; distant places need established distance and an intervening leader or scene; a person away from his own precincts must be explained or pre-established. Character: a costume change needs intervening action that allows the time. Two scenes in one setting run together read as one scene. Entrances: do not leave a needed character standing in the previous scene or show him already on. Props, wardrobe and make-up: not in these chapters (bounded scan, see findings). The numbered rules are Sargent's 'general guide, not infallible rules'.
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