# Agent check: given a story idea, how would an agent choose a form (drama, melodrama, comedy, tragedy) and a length (split reel, one reel, multi-reel) using Phillips's 1914 tests?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T17:05:25.429Z
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A proposed form-and-length check built from Phillips (1914): count the idea's climacteric situations to choose Short Play versus Long Play, reject padding, label the form by obstacle source and effect source, apply comedy, tragedy and drama gates, run a spectacle necessity gate and an adaptation gate, and record the result with 1914-practice and proposal labels separated. The steps are the worker's assembly of tests Phillips states separately; he does not give one procedure.

A proposed form-and-length check built from Phillips (1914): count the idea's climacteric situations to choose Short Play versus Long Play, reject padding, label the form by obstacle source and effect source, apply comedy, tragedy and drama gates, run a spectacle necessity gate and an adaptation gate, and record the result with 1914-practice and proposal labels separated. The steps are the worker's assembly of tests Phillips states separately; he does not give one procedure.

Curator qualifications: Eight-step form/length check labelled 1914 vs proposal; L10 not run.

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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- [inference] A proposed form-and-length check built from Phillips (1914): count the idea's climacteric situations to choose Short Play versus Long Play, reject padding, label the form by obstacle source and effect source, apply comedy, tragedy and drama gates, run a spectacle necessity gate and an adaptation gate, and record the result with 1914-practice and proposal labels separated. The steps are the worker's assembly of tests Phillips states separately; he does not give one procedure. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt

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