In a 1916 studio's manuscript department, who handled an incoming script and in what order?
Sargent (Ch. II, flat 22203-32390) describes an Editor with clerks and staff writers. An assistant reads incoming scripts first and discards the unfit; he says about eighty per cent stop there. The rest go to the Editor for a second reading, then to one of three disposal routes. Only the third route (weekly directors' conference) is described as synopsis first, then the action plot.
Sargent (Ch. II, flat 22203-32390) describes an Editor with clerks and staff writers. An assistant reads incoming scripts first and discards the unfit; he says about eighty per cent stop there. The rest go to the Editor for a second reading, then to one of three disposal routes. Only the third route (weekly directors' conference) is described as synopsis first, then the action plot.
Curator qualifications: Reading stages and the about-80-percent first-stage discard verified as his estimate.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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