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Which failure modes with the bust does Sargent (1916) name in Chapter XXXV, and does he name overuse or interrupting the action?

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1916 practice: he names overuse (devices lose value through constant showing; a play of special effects is seldom as interesting as one carried by story), the false hope that devices fix a poor story, a held confrontation turning humorous, an unplanted weapon looking like a conjuring trick, trick effects mis-timed in one continuous scene, and confused terms. He does not name interrupting the action as a fault in this chapter (bounded negative: he uses the bust to break tension). 'Overuse' is his sense (sparing use) though that word is not in the text.

1916 practice: he names overuse (devices lose value through constant showing; a play of special effects is seldom as interesting as one carried by story), the false hope that devices fix a poor story, a held confrontation turning humorous, an unplanted weapon looking like a conjuring trick, trick effects mis-timed in one continuous scene, and confused terms. He does not name interrupting the action as a fault in this chapter (bounded negative: he uses the bust to break tension). 'Overuse' is his sense (sparing use) though that word is not in the text. Curator qualifications: Named misuses verified; bounded negatives reproduced. 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",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.flat[437482:450568] (Ch. XXXV heading to Ch. XXXVI heading)"
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  • [sourced_fact] 1916 practice: he names overuse (devices lose value through constant showing; a play of special effects is seldom as interesting as one carried by story), the false hope that devices fix a poor story, a held confrontation turning humorous, an unplanted weapon looking like a conjuring trick, trick effects mis-timed in one continuous scene, and confused terms. He does not name interrupting the action as a fault in this chapter (bounded negative: he uses the bust to break tension). 'Overuse' is his sense (sparing use) though that word is not in the text. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.flat[437482:450568] (Ch. XXXV heading to Ch. XXXVI heading) source

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