When does Sargent (1916, Ch. XXX) say to combine or split scenes and sets, and what does the chapter leave to the next chapter?
1916 practice (Sargent): Chapter XXX gives no numeric rule for merging or splitting scenes. What it does say: reuse an existing set instead of adding one for a single scene, but do not force the action into an unsuitable room; a character's walk out of a house can be one panning scene or two scenes, and he judges two cleaner because many companies restrict panning; a cut-away that interrupts continuous action gets its own scene number but is played as one scene and cut up; a bust or close-up is listed as its own number under its set; a set that has changed gets a new reference. The definition of the action scene is in Chapter XXXI.
1916 practice (Sargent): Chapter XXX gives no numeric rule for merging or splitting scenes. What it does say: reuse an existing set instead of adding one for a single scene, but do not force the action into an unsuitable room; a character's walk out of a house can be one panning scene or two scenes, and he judges two cleaner because many companies restrict panning; a cut-away that interrupts continuous action gets its own scene number but is played as one scene and cut up; a bust or close-up is listed as its own number under its set; a set that has changed gets a new reference. The definition of the action scene is in Chapter XXXI.
Curator qualifications: Merge/split guidance verified as qualitative; no numeric rule.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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