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How does Sargent (1916, Ch. XLV paras 4-9 with Ch. XLIII paras 17-18) say to establish a minor or later-important person or fact so that it reads as casual, how can I test it, and how much explanation may a script carry?

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1916 practice (Sargent, ch. XLV paras 6-9; ch. XLIII paras 17-18). To make a figure matter later, single him out early in a casual way: in a mob scene a close-up shows Harvey helping an old man and then being clubbed, so the later insanity needs no explanation. Establishment should be planned to seem casual but not so important or palpable that it looks like an effort to identify. His implied test is in para 9: a good casual establishment connects at once to the later development, while the detective, never established but simply present in a scene, makes the viewer go back and reason out what he did. Explanation is budgeted: not more than a third of a one-reel, half a reel of a three-reel and the first reel of a five-part story, with the final stretch kept free of introductions. Examples are invented. Planting of events (Ch. XLVI) is in C3-B293-S99-02.

1916 practice (Sargent, ch. XLV paras 6-9; ch. XLIII paras 17-18). To make a figure matter later, single him out early in a casual way: in a mob scene a close-up shows Harvey helping an old man and then being clubbed, so the later insanity needs no explanation. Establishment should be planned to seem casual but not so important or palpable that it looks like an effort to identify. His implied test is in para 9: a good casual establishment connects at once to the later development, while the detective, never established but simply present in a scene, makes the viewer go back and reason out what he did. Explanation is budgeted: not more than a third of a one-reel, half a reel of a three-reel and the first reel of a five-part story, with the final stretch kept free of introductions. Examples are invented. Planting of events (Ch. XLVI) is in C3-B293-S99-02. Curator qualifications: Plot-of-action, premise vs plot, suspense-bearing factors, continuity (time, place and fact leaders) and establishing rules are verified as Sargent's text. In -08, steps 9-10 are correctly labelled worker proposals. 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 (Sargent, ch. XLV paras 6-9; ch. XLIII paras 17-18). To make a figure matter later, single him out early in a casual way: in a mob scene a close-up shows Harvey helping an old man and then being clubbed, so the later insanity needs no explanation. Establishment should be planned to seem casual but not so important or palpable that it looks like an effort to identify. His implied test is in para 9: a good casual establishment connects at once to the later development, while the detective, never established but simply present in a scene, makes the viewer go back and reason out what he did. Explanation is budgeted: not more than a third of a one-reel, half a reel of a three-reel and the first reel of a five-part story, with the final stretch kept free of introductions. Examples are invented. Planting of events (Ch. XLVI) is in C3-B293-S99-02. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIII-XLV offsets per candidate source

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