How does Phillips (1914) define a photoplay scene, when must a new scene number be used, what shape and length must a scene have, and does his specimen follow his numbering rule?

Phillips defines a photoplay scene by the camera, not the stage: all the setting and action photographed without stopping or changing the camera position. Move the camera 'an inch', or return to the same setting a score of times, and it is a new scene with a new number; the one exception is a scene broken by an insert or close-view, which is 'continued' under the same number. Each scene has one desired effect and its length is exactly the time needed to reach it: introduction, rising development, a climax that ends it, no denouement. He would prefer to call scenes 'acts'. The specimen follows the numbering pattern: 40 numbers, 7 '(CONTINUED.)' repeats, 19 'SAME AS' returns. Label: 1914 practice. Excerpts drop Gutenberg italic underscores and collapse line wraps. Curator qualifications: A scene is defined by an unbroken camera position; specimen numbering reproduces. Parser note: one specimen heading is 'Scene 5.' in mixed case (L4097). A case-sensitive count finds 46 headings rather than 47, so heading parsers for period scripts should be case-insensitive. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

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