In Sargent's 1916 chapter 'Leaders and Cut-Ins', what is a leader, which kinds does he name, and when does he say one is justified?
1916 practice (Sargent, a US trade manual for silent photoplays): a leader is printed matter on screen for what cannot be conveyed by subtler means. He names straight, fact, time, break and cut-in leaders. His test for a leader is that it tells in the smallest footage a fact action cannot convey; the aim is as few leaders as possible, but every necessary one. A leader costs the viewer one to three seconds of mental adjustment.
1916 practice (Sargent, a US trade manual for silent photoplays): a leader is printed matter on screen for what cannot be conveyed by subtler means. He names straight, fact, time, break and cut-in leaders. His test for a leader is that it tells in the smallest footage a fact action cannot convey; the aim is as few leaders as possible, but every necessary one. A leader costs the viewer one to three seconds of mental adjustment.
Curator qualifications: Leader types (straight, fact, time, break, cut-in), the cut-in as in-scene speech, time-leader wording and misuses are verified as Sargent's text. The seven-check list (-05) is labelled practice plus proposal.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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