Where does Sargent (1916, Ch. VIII) say a photoplay writer should get plot material (reading, observation, newspapers), what should be read, and what do his examples show?
1916 practice. Sargent says the mind must be stored through reading and observation, ranks reading above personal observation, and prescribes broad reading with no fixed list: fiction, newspapers, plain books on technical subjects, even catalogues. He claims odd reading gives ideas, not finished plots. His examples are a mail-order catalogue, a railroad instruction book that suggested a comedy, and station partings. He gives no reading list, quantity, time or test.
1916 practice. Sargent says the mind must be stored through reading and observation, ranks reading above personal observation, and prescribes broad reading with no fixed list: fiction, newspapers, plain books on technical subjects, even catalogues. He claims odd reading gives ideas, not finished plots. His examples are a mail-order catalogue, a railroad instruction book that suggested a comedy, and station partings. He gives no reading list, quantity, time or test.
Curator qualifications: Reading over observation, broad reading without list, catalogue/railroad examples verified.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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