According to Sargent's 1916 introduction, who can learn photoplay writing, and what can a how-to text teach versus not teach?
Sargent's Chapter I (flat 9900-22203) says a text can teach form and help avoid common errors but cannot teach creation: he states that reading the book does not make one a photoplay writer, and that no instruction system can make the unfit competent. His 'fit' person has a proper quality of imagination and is willing to work. He gives no test of fitness and no evidence beyond analogies (music notation, grammar, an athlete). Treat all of this as a period author's claims from a book he was selling, not as measured fact.
Sargent's Chapter I (flat 9900-22203) says a text can teach form and help avoid common errors but cannot teach creation: he states that reading the book does not make one a photoplay writer, and that no instruction system can make the unfit competent. His 'fit' person has a proper quality of imagination and is willing to work. He gives no test of fitness and no evidence beyond analogies (music notation, grammar, an athlete). Treat all of this as a period author's claims from a book he was selling, not as measured fact.
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