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What does Phillips (1914) prescribe for the scenario: its content, the setting line, tense, how much the writer may direct, and how do his specimen and Esenwein and Leeds's scene counts compare?

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In Phillips the scenario is the enumeration of scenes with the action in each. After the scene number a single line names the setting (one or two words unless the arrangement has dramatic bearing), and that line is 'the only space permitted' for description. The action is told in the present tense, tersely, with every scene essential to the cumulative advance of the play; the writer says what is done, not how, though a happy suggestion may save actor or director time. Examples 6-8 are illustrations, not rules. The specimen scenario has 40 numbered scenes in one reel, inside the 25-50 scenes per reel that Phillips himself gives in Ch. VIII (outside Ch. III) and that Esenwein and Leeds give (via C3-B188-S42-03); Ch. III states no scenes-per-reel figure. Label: 1914 practice. Excerpts drop Gutenberg italic underscores and collapse line wraps.

In Phillips the scenario is the enumeration of scenes with the action in each. After the scene number a single line names the setting (one or two words unless the arrangement has dramatic bearing), and that line is 'the only space permitted' for description. The action is told in the present tense, tersely, with every scene essential to the cumulative advance of the play; the writer says what is done, not how, though a happy suggestion may save actor or director time. Examples 6-8 are illustrations, not rules. The specimen scenario has 40 numbered scenes in one reel, inside the 25-50 scenes per reel that Phillips himself gives in Ch. VIII (outside Ch. III) and that Esenwein and Leeds give (via C3-B188-S42-03); Ch. III states no scenes-per-reel figure. Label: 1914 practice. Excerpts drop Gutenberg italic underscores and collapse line wraps. Curator qualifications: Scenario rules; 25-50 scenes per reel (Ch. VIII). 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] In Phillips the scenario is the enumeration of scenes with the action in each. After the scene number a single line names the setting (one or two words unless the arrangement has dramatic bearing), and that line is 'the only space permitted' for description. The action is told in the present tense, tersely, with every scene essential to the cumulative advance of the play; the writer says what is done, not how, though a happy suggestion may save actor or director time. Examples 6-8 are illustrations, not rules. The specimen scenario has 40 numbered scenes in one reel, inside the 25-50 scenes per reel that Phillips himself gives in Ch. VIII (outside Ch. III) and that Esenwein and Leeds give (via C3-B188-S42-03); Ch. III states no scenes-per-reel figure. Label: 1914 practice. Excerpts drop Gutenberg italic underscores and collapse line wraps. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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