What are the 'apparition' and stop-camera effects in Sargent's Ch. XLII, when does he choose a dissolved apparition over a straight stop-camera one, and how does the writer script them?
1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLII): an apparition is the sudden or gradual appearance of a person or object in a scene, made by stopping the camera, with or without a dissolve. For a thought of a person (Tom thinking of Mary) the figure is dissolved in and out; for a shock (Bess haunting Ben) a plain stop is used; objects may be dissolved in to remind rather than startle. The instruction to the writer is to state what happens in the scene and to name no technique; the director and camera operator supply it. He admits the Ben scene is troublesome and that every stop means a patched film. Examples are invented scripts.
1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLII): an apparition is the sudden or gradual appearance of a person or object in a scene, made by stopping the camera, with or without a dissolve. For a thought of a person (Tom thinking of Mary) the figure is dissolved in and out; for a shock (Bess haunting Ben) a plain stop is used; objects may be dissolved in to remind rather than startle. The instruction to the writer is to state what happens in the scene and to name no technique; the director and camera operator supply it. He admits the Ben scene is troublesome and that every stop means a patched film. 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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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLII): an apparition is the sudden or gradual appearance of a person or object in a scene, made by stopping the camera, with or without a dissolve. For a thought of a person (Tom thinking of Mary) the figure is dissolved in and out; for a shock (Bess haunting Ben) a plain stop is used; objects may be dissolved in to remind rather than startle. The instruction to the writer is to state what happens in the scene and to name no technique; the director and camera operator supply it. He admits the Ben scene is troublesome and that every stop means a patched film. Examples are invented scripts. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate source
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