When does Sargent (1916) say a letter insert is justified in a photoplay script, how long and how worded should it be, and how does he say letters are misused?
1916 practice (Sargent): the letter is the simplest and 'one of the most useful' inserts: it can fix several facts in about 20-25 feet and interrupts less than a printed leader. He warns against overuse, against letters with no reason to be written, and against postcard-style bulletins. His rules: a legitimate excuse to write; a letter-like text of which only the essential part (opening, close or middle) need show; show it when written, not when received; keep it brief; prefer action when action can carry the fact. The letters in the chapter are his invented examples, not film quotations.
1916 practice (Sargent): the letter is the simplest and 'one of the most useful' inserts: it can fix several facts in about 20-25 feet and interrupts less than a printed leader. He warns against overuse, against letters with no reason to be written, and against postcard-style bulletins. His rules: a legitimate excuse to write; a letter-like text of which only the essential part (opening, close or middle) need show; show it when written, not when received; keep it brief; prefer action when action can carry the fact. The letters in the chapter are his invented examples, not film quotations.
Curator qualifications: Insert practice (letters, telegrams, newspapers, object inserts; written once, then flashed) is verified as Sargent's text. -05 is labelled practice plus proposal.
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 (Sargent): the letter is the simplest and 'one of the most useful' inserts: it can fix several facts in about 20-25 feet and interrupts less than a printed leader. He warns against overuse, against letters with no reason to be written, and against postcard-style bulletins. His rules: a legitimate excuse to write; a letter-like text of which only the essential part (opening, close or middle) need show; show it when written, not when received; keep it brief; prefer action when action can carry the fact. The letters in the chapter are his invented examples, not film quotations. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate source
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