What do 'cut-back' and 'flash' mean in Sargent's 1916 photoplay manual (Chapter XXXIX), how long is a flash supposed to be, and what jobs does he give the cut-back?
1916 practice: Sargent opens the chapter by giving the cut-back three jobs: bridge awkward gaps in the action, heighten a situation through contrasting action, and raise suspense by delaying the crisis or climax; in the second and third jobs it is 'merely a flash'. A flash is a very brief scene, properly about three seconds, though in practice it may run much longer or shorter; he calls a six-frame (three-eighths of a second) scene a monstrosity, and no worse than a flashed letter held on screen ten or fifteen seconds. In this chapter 'flash' names a duration of an inserted scene, not a past or imagined moment (bounded: the chapter's text only).
1916 practice: Sargent opens the chapter by giving the cut-back three jobs: bridge awkward gaps in the action, heighten a situation through contrasting action, and raise suspense by delaying the crisis or climax; in the second and third jobs it is 'merely a flash'. A flash is a very brief scene, properly about three seconds, though in practice it may run much longer or shorter; he calls a six-frame (three-eighths of a second) scene a monstrosity, and no worse than a flashed letter held on screen ten or fifteen seconds. In this chapter 'flash' names a duration of an inserted scene, not a past or imagined moment (bounded: the chapter's text only).
Curator qualifications: Cut-back jobs (bridge, contrast, suspense), scene numbering ('Back to No. 35'), suspense by alternation and the cautions are verified as Sargent's text.
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 opens the chapter by giving the cut-back three jobs: bridge awkward gaps in the action, heighten a situation through contrasting action, and raise suspense by delaying the crisis or climax; in the second and third jobs it is 'merely a flash'. A flash is a very brief scene, properly about three seconds, though in practice it may run much longer or shorter; he calls a six-frame (three-eighths of a second) scene a monstrosity, and no worse than a flashed letter held on screen ten or fifteen seconds. In this chapter 'flash' names a duration of an inserted scene, not a past or imagined moment (bounded: the chapter's text only). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XXXIX offsets per candidate source
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