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What self-study course does Sargent recommend in Ch. LXII: what to read, watch and practise, and in what order?

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1916 practice: study by practice, no teacher. Order: study the rules and reasons; watch films alone as a study and note cut-backs; ask why a film impressed you; read Moving Picture World summaries; see a bill twice, note scenes, rebuild the best play from memory and analyse how it made emotion; study how to improve it; write and rewrite own plots with rests; write many plots before perfecting one. Besides his book, only the Moving Picture World is named as reading in Ch. LXII (Brett Page in Ch. LXI).

1916 practice: study by practice, no teacher. Order: study the rules and reasons; watch films alone as a study and note cut-backs; ask why a film impressed you; read Moving Picture World summaries; see a bill twice, note scenes, rebuild the best play from memory and analyse how it made emotion; study how to improve it; write and rewrite own plots with rests; write many plots before perfecting one. Besides his book, only the Moving Picture World is named as reading in Ch. LXII (Brett Page in Ch. LXI). 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. 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: study by practice, no teacher. Order: study the rules and reasons; watch films alone as a study and note cut-backs; ask why a film impressed you; read Moving Picture World summaries; see a bill twice, note scenes, rebuild the best play from memory and analyse how it made emotion; study how to improve it; write and rewrite own plots with rests; write many plots before perfecting one. Besides his book, only the Moving Picture World is named as reading in Ch. LXII (Brett Page in Ch. LXI). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. LXI and study chapters source

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