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How does Sargent (1916, Ch. XLI) separate the vision within the frame from the fade vision, when does he prefer each, and how is each written into a script?

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1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLI): two forms. The frame (straight, 'true') vision was a small second image inside the scene made by double exposure; the fade vision is a separate full-frame scene faded down and up, joined at splicing. He prefers the frame form for a person's thought and small effects, and the fade form for narrative visions with new facts that need a full stage; he says current practice favours the fade form for the director's convenience. Script form differs: the frame vision is one inline phrase 'VISION of ... — fades'; the fade vision takes three numbered entries ending 'Back to No. N', with a NOTE on the original scene if it is reused. Worked examples are invented scripts.

1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLI): two forms. The frame (straight, 'true') vision was a small second image inside the scene made by double exposure; the fade vision is a separate full-frame scene faded down and up, joined at splicing. He prefers the frame form for a person's thought and small effects, and the fade form for narrative visions with new facts that need a full stage; he says current practice favours the fade form for the director's convenience. Script form differs: the frame vision is one inline phrase 'VISION of ... — fades'; the fade vision takes three numbered entries ending 'Back to No. N', with a NOTE on the original scene if it is reused. Worked examples are invented scripts. Curator qualifications: Visions (frame vs fade), fades, dissolves and apparitions are 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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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
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  • [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLI): two forms. The frame (straight, 'true') vision was a small second image inside the scene made by double exposure; the fade vision is a separate full-frame scene faded down and up, joined at splicing. He prefers the frame form for a person's thought and small effects, and the fade form for narrative visions with new facts that need a full stage; he says current practice favours the fade form for the director's convenience. Script form differs: the frame vision is one inline phrase 'VISION of ... — fades'; the fade vision takes three numbered entries ending 'Back to No. N', with a NOTE on the original scene if it is reused. Worked examples are invented scripts. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate source

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