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What misuses of leaders and cut-ins does Sargent (1916) name, which numbers does he give, and how do his limits compare by candidate id with Phillips's and Esenwein's?

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1916 practice (Sargent): misuses are opening with a leader, introducing characters by a leader catalogue (50-200 feet wasted), printing a speech the player already mouths, overlaid (Hall) leaders, dialogue leaders, quoting poetry, slang that breaks in translation, and stating leader counts in a script. His numbers are few (one to three seconds; 50-200 feet; two cut-ins per scene) and he gives no word cap, unlike Phillips's 15 and 20 words (C3-B259-S74-05). Compared by id: Sargent's emphasis is the cut-in's suspense benefit, where C3-B289-S96-05 stresses that a line must supplement action and C3-B188-S42-02 gives notation.

1916 practice (Sargent): misuses are opening with a leader, introducing characters by a leader catalogue (50-200 feet wasted), printing a speech the player already mouths, overlaid (Hall) leaders, dialogue leaders, quoting poetry, slang that breaks in translation, and stating leader counts in a script. His numbers are few (one to three seconds; 50-200 feet; two cut-ins per scene) and he gives no word cap, unlike Phillips's 15 and 20 words (C3-B259-S74-05). Compared by id: Sargent's emphasis is the cut-in's suspense benefit, where C3-B289-S96-05 stresses that a line must supplement action and C3-B188-S42-02 gives notation. 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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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
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  • [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent): misuses are opening with a leader, introducing characters by a leader catalogue (50-200 feet wasted), printing a speech the player already mouths, overlaid (Hall) leaders, dialogue leaders, quoting poetry, slang that breaks in translation, and stating leader counts in a script. His numbers are few (one to three seconds; 50-200 feet; two cut-ins per scene) and he gives no word cap, unlike Phillips's 15 and 20 words (C3-B259-S74-05). Compared by id: Sargent's emphasis is the cut-in's suspense benefit, where C3-B289-S96-05 stresses that a line must supplement action and C3-B188-S42-02 gives notation. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate source

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