Which subjects and treatments does Sargent (1916, Ch. LXVII) say the board bars, which does he say it passes under conditions, and which sentences are his report of board practice, a prediction, a hypothetical example, advice or opinion?
1916 practice as reported by Sargent, with no board text cited. He reports a general bar on stories based on crime, immorality, the lewd, lascivious, vicious, cruel, irreverent and irreligious, softened by "many of them may be used" when used to point a moral, except lascivious and irreligious themes, which are "always barred". Crime is conditional: wanton versus lesson-pointing, passion versus cold blood, suggested versus shown in detail; the aim is a minimum of crime scenes for a rightful purpose. The Smith and Brown killing is his invented illustration, "not probable" is his prediction, and paras 8-9 are largely his own claim and advice.
1916 practice as reported by Sargent, with no board text cited. He reports a general bar on stories based on crime, immorality, the lewd, lascivious, vicious, cruel, irreverent and irreligious, softened by "many of them may be used" when used to point a moral, except lascivious and irreligious themes, which are "always barred". Crime is conditional: wanton versus lesson-pointing, passion versus cold blood, suggested versus shown in detail; the aim is a minimum of crime scenes for a rightful purpose. The Smith and Brown killing is his invented illustration, "not probable" is his prediction, and paras 8-9 are largely his own claim and advice.
Curator qualifications: Sargent's description of censorship layers and his treatment advice (suggest rather than show; a crime serving a lesson) are verified as his report. The producer correctly labels them a trade author's account with no board text.
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] 1916 practice as reported by Sargent, with no board text cited. He reports a general bar on stories based on crime, immorality, the lewd, lascivious, vicious, cruel, irreverent and irreligious, softened by "many of them may be used" when used to point a moral, except lascivious and irreligious themes, which are "always barred". Crime is conditional: wanton versus lesson-pointing, passion versus cold blood, suggested versus shown in detail; the aim is a minimum of crime scenes for a rightful purpose. The Smith and Brown killing is his invented illustration, "not probable" is his prediction, and paras 8-9 are largely his own claim and advice. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. LXVII offsets per candidate source
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