What does Sargent (1916, Ch. LXXI "Prize Schemes") tell a photoplay writer about scenario prize contests: what kinds exist, why they exist, and why he says to stay out?
1916 practice, Sargent only. Three forms: newspaper advertising contests; company script contests that buy others at average prices; a magazine "contest" gathering names for a sucker list. Reasons: advertising, sometimes better material cheaply. Against: writers drop regular work, long odds on numbers he supposes, entries may be unread or fixed, delay costs more than a prize earns. Numbers and the sucker-list case are suppositions or unnamed.
1916 practice, Sargent only. Three forms: newspaper advertising contests; company script contests that buy others at average prices; a magazine "contest" gathering names for a sucker list. Reasons: advertising, sometimes better material cheaply. Against: writers drop regular work, long odds on numbers he supposes, entries may be unread or fixed, delay costs more than a prize earns. Numbers and the sucker-list case are suppositions or unnamed.
Curator qualifications: Contest forms and reasons verified as his statements; numbers are suppositions and the sucker-list case unnamed, as labelled.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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