# In Phillips's 1914 manual, what is the difference between a split-reel, a one-reel short play and a multi-reel long play, what can each hold, and what goes wrong with each?

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In Phillips (1914) a reel is 1,000 feet (about twenty minutes by his Part I count), a Split Reel is less than a reel and in practice plotless-farce fragments, a Short Play is one reel and one part, and a Long Play is more than one reel. The Short Play is like a short story, pursued intensively from opening to culmination; the Long Play is like a novel and is not a padded or sectioned Short Play: each reel is a unit with its own climacteric situation, ends with a new complication and a new formidable obstacle, and must advance. The chapter itself gives no scene or footage counts; those are in other parts of the book.

In Phillips (1914) a reel is 1,000 feet (about twenty minutes by his Part I count), a Split Reel is less than a reel and in practice plotless-farce fragments, a Short Play is one reel and one part, and a Long Play is more than one reel. The Short Play is like a short story, pursued intensively from opening to culmination; the Long Play is like a novel and is not a padded or sectioned Short Play: each reel is a unit with its own climacteric situation, ends with a new complication and a new formidable obstacle, and must advance. The chapter itself gives no scene or footage counts; those are in other parts of the book.

Curator qualifications: Source arithmetic does not reconcile (three acts x 40 min vs 1h20); outside-chapter figures labelled.

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{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt",
      "note": "Part I (outside chapter) lines 775-779"
    }
  ]
}
```

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- [sourced_fact] In Phillips (1914) a reel is 1,000 feet (about twenty minutes by his Part I count), a Split Reel is less than a reel and in practice plotless-farce fragments, a Short Play is one reel and one part, and a Long Play is more than one reel. The Short Play is like a short story, pursued intensively from opening to culmination; the Long Play is like a novel and is not a padded or sectioned Short Play: each reel is a unit with its own climacteric situation, ends with a new complication and a new formidable obstacle, and must advance. The chapter itself gives no scene or footage counts; those are in other parts of the book. · locator: Part I (outside chapter) lines 775-779 · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt

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