What filters does Sargent (1916) give for what an action line may carry (plot relevance, one point per scene), and what does he say about verbs and wording?
1916 practice. Sargent's filters in Ch. XXXIII: every written action must advance the story; no scene for pretty background; one point per scene; add earlier-established facts as allusion to enrich a scene without confusing it. Wording: the chapter states no verb or adjective rule (0 hits in the chapter range), only the pattern of his brief scripts, which are terse fragments and keep a camera direction. The enriched scene example is not labelled by-play.
1916 practice. Sargent's filters in Ch. XXXIII: every written action must advance the story; no scene for pretty background; one point per scene; add earlier-established facts as allusion to enrich a scene without confusing it. Wording: the chapter states no verb or adjective rule (0 hits in the chapter range), only the pattern of his brief scripts, which are terse fragments and keep a camera direction. The enriched scene example is not labelled by-play.
Curator qualifications: Scene filters (advance story, no pretty-background scenes, one point per scene, allusion to prior facts) verified; 'no verb or adjective rule' negative confirmed by 0 grep hits in chapter range.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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