According to Sargent (1916), can I predict a script's length in feet from its number of scenes, words or pages, and what scene counts does he report?
1916 practice (Sargent): no. A scene count, word count or page count does not fix footage, because scenes run from six frames to nearly a reel and directors differ by hundreds of feet. He offers one hearsay exception (about 40 scenes not cut back make a reel; 200 make five reels), and reports a two-reel specimen with 31 and 51 scenes (30 and 52 in its own appendix note). His advice is experience, then a one-, two- or three-reel plot with enough action.
1916 practice (Sargent): no. A scene count, word count or page count does not fix footage, because scenes run from six frames to nearly a reel and directors differ by hundreds of feet. He offers one hearsay exception (about 40 scenes not cut back make a reel; 200 make five reels), and reports a two-reel specimen with 31 and 51 scenes (30 and 52 in its own appendix note). His advice is experience, then a one-, two- or three-reel plot with enough action.
Curator qualifications: Footage and bust rules are verified as Sargent's text. The foot-equals-second conversion follows from his 16 frames a second and 16 frames to the foot (curator check). Arithmetic rows are worker code (work/build.py), not run by the curator.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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