If a talking picture were written in 1916, how did Sargent say the writing differs: dialogue rules, timing, layout and settings, and does dialogue change photoplay writing as he states it?
1916 practice: Sargent treats talking-picture writing as stage-play writing, not a change to photoplay writing (dialogue defeats the end of the motion picture; the phonograph is unlikely to heighten the photoplay). His rules: dialogue natural, not stilted blank verse; characteristic and individual (banker vs bully, maid vs mistress); timed by playing (four minutes read may need five or six); brief plays with few settings (a hedged prediction); manuscript with speech and business separated. By ID only, C3-B237-S61-02 and -04 (Baker) share the aim of natural, individual speech; Sargent gives no test.
1916 practice: Sargent treats talking-picture writing as stage-play writing, not a change to photoplay writing (dialogue defeats the end of the motion picture; the phonograph is unlikely to heighten the photoplay). His rules: dialogue natural, not stilted blank verse; characteristic and individual (banker vs bully, maid vs mistress); timed by playing (four minutes read may need five or six); brief plays with few settings (a hedged prediction); manuscript with speech and business separated. By ID only, C3-B237-S61-02 and -04 (Baker) share the aim of natural, individual speech; Sargent gives no test.
Curator qualifications: Sargent's talking-picture prediction, dialogue rules and study method are verified and correctly labelled as 1916 predictions and practice; examples are separated from claims.
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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice: Sargent treats talking-picture writing as stage-play writing, not a change to photoplay writing (dialogue defeats the end of the motion picture; the phonograph is unlikely to heighten the photoplay). His rules: dialogue natural, not stilted blank verse; characteristic and individual (banker vs bully, maid vs mistress); timed by playing (four minutes read may need five or six); brief plays with few settings (a hedged prediction); manuscript with speech and business separated. By ID only, C3-B237-S61-02 and -04 (Baker) share the aim of natural, individual speech; Sargent gives no test. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. LXI and study chapters source
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