How does Sargent (1916) tell a writer to budget leaders, titles and inserts inside a reel, and does he endorse per-scene footage allotments or stopwatch timing?
1916 practice (Sargent): the writer can gauge inserted matter more closely than scenes. He gives 100 to 200 feet per reel for inserts, about a foot per leader word (3 ft minimum), a title of about 10 ft, a tailpiece or censor tag of 10 to 15, letters 10 to 25 and other inserts 5 to 10. Subtracting these shows roughly how much footage remains for action, 'never better than a guess'. He reports per-scene footage schemes (too inflexible in practice) and stopwatch timing (only a rough idea, and the student watches the watch).
1916 practice (Sargent): the writer can gauge inserted matter more closely than scenes. He gives 100 to 200 feet per reel for inserts, about a foot per leader word (3 ft minimum), a title of about 10 ft, a tailpiece or censor tag of 10 to 15, letters 10 to 25 and other inserts 5 to 10. Subtracting these shows roughly how much footage remains for action, 'never better than a guess'. He reports per-scene footage schemes (too inflexible in practice) and stopwatch timing (only a rough idea, and the student watches the watch).
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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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent): the writer can gauge inserted matter more closely than scenes. He gives 100 to 200 feet per reel for inserts, about a foot per leader word (3 ft minimum), a title of about 10 ft, a tailpiece or censor tag of 10 to 15, letters 10 to 25 and other inserts 5 to 10. Subtracting these shows roughly how much footage remains for action, 'never better than a guess'. He reports per-scene footage schemes (too inflexible in practice) and stopwatch timing (only a rough idea, and the student watches the watch). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XXXIV-XXXV source
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