# Given a short-film scene plan, how can an agent check it against the 1914 rules in Phillips's 'Rules of the Game', keeping what is 1914 practice separate from what is the worker's proposal?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T17:05:44.254Z
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A nine-step advisory check (proposal) that applies Phillips's stated 1914 rules to a scene plan: count camera setups against 25 to 50 per reel and 75 to 200 an hour; weight durations by bearing on the climax; flag scenes over two to three minutes without dialog; flag told-not-shown events, stories within stories and backward turns; check present tense and time lapses; audit exits and entrances; check identity and reflective links. The rules are labelled 1914 practice; the runtime scaling, the unit mapping, the severity and the report format are labelled proposal. Phillips supplies no checklist and says rules should not lead you by the nose.

A nine-step advisory check (proposal) that applies Phillips's stated 1914 rules to a scene plan: count camera setups against 25 to 50 per reel and 75 to 200 an hour; weight durations by bearing on the climax; flag scenes over two to three minutes without dialog; flag told-not-shown events, stories within stories and backward turns; check present tense and time lapses; audit exits and entrances; check identity and reflective links. The rules are labelled 1914 practice; the runtime scaling, the unit mapping, the severity and the report format are labelled proposal. Phillips supplies no checklist and says rules should not lead you by the nose.

Curator qualifications: Nine-step advisory 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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```

Evidence claims:
- [inference] A nine-step advisory check (proposal) that applies Phillips's stated 1914 rules to a scene plan: count camera setups against 25 to 50 per reel and 75 to 200 an hour; weight durations by bearing on the climax; flag scenes over two to three minutes without dialog; flag told-not-shown events, stories within stories and backward turns; check present tense and time lapses; audit exits and entrances; check identity and reflective links. The rules are labelled 1914 practice; the runtime scaling, the unit mapping, the severity and the report format are labelled proposal. Phillips supplies no checklist and says rules should not lead you by the nose. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt

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