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What does Sargent's close-up chapter (1916, Ch. XXXVIII) NOT say: numbers, ratios, lens or size terms, costs, sound, reverse or over-the-shoulder shots?

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Negative result, bounded to the Ch. XXXVIII span (sar.flat chars 507088-532663), searched on joined and whitespace-collapsed text: no percent, ratio, 'often', 'frequent*', 'too many/much', lens, cost, over-the-shoulder or eyeline terms. The only numbers are Sargent's estimates inside invented examples (about 150 feet; twelve minutes, about three-quarters of a reel; a balcony three feet above the floor). 'Reverse' is a verb in sentence one. This chapter says nothing about whether a close-up is cheaper or dearer to shoot beyond stopping the action and the camera's turning while the camera moves (para 20). The OCR defects listed make some phrase searches unreliable; clean-span quoting is used throughout.

Negative result, bounded to the Ch. XXXVIII span (sar.flat chars 507088-532663), searched on joined and whitespace-collapsed text: no percent, ratio, 'often', 'frequent*', 'too many/much', lens, cost, over-the-shoulder or eyeline terms. The only numbers are Sargent's estimates inside invented examples (about 150 feet; twelve minutes, about three-quarters of a reel; a balcony three feet above the floor). 'Reverse' is a verb in sentence one. This chapter says nothing about whether a close-up is cheaper or dearer to shoot beyond stopping the action and the camera's turning while the camera moves (para 20). The OCR defects listed make some phrase searches unreliable; clean-span quoting is used throughout. Curator qualifications: Close-up definition, jobs, numbering as separate scenes, cautions and the bounded 'no ratio' negative are verified as Sargent's text. The density figures in -04 are counts of his own printed examples. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Negative result, bounded to the Ch. XXXVIII span (sar.flat chars 507088-532663), searched on joined and whitespace-collapsed text: no percent, ratio, 'often', 'frequent*', 'too many/much', lens, cost, over-the-shoulder or eyeline terms. The only numbers are Sargent's estimates inside invented examples (about 150 feet; twelve minutes, about three-quarters of a reel; a balcony three feet above the floor). 'Reverse' is a verb in sentence one. This chapter says nothing about whether a close-up is cheaper or dearer to shoot beyond stopping the action and the camera's turning while the camera moves (para 20). The OCR defects listed make some phrase searches unreliable; clean-span quoting is used throughout. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XXXVIII offsets per candidate source

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