# In Esenwein and Leeds (1919) Chapter XIII, what is "the photoplay stage", what space limit does it put on a scene, and what does the chapter give as numbers for it?

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In the authors' definition the photoplay stage is everything the camera's range takes in, in studio or outdoors. They say it looks wide but is limited: a V-shaped area from the camera, marked with cord or wire on the floor in some studios, holds the whole set and the whole scene. A deeper set means setting the back part further off with a second pair of V lines, so the picture grows deeper and wider with the diverging lines. The chapter gives no dimensions for a stage, so a writer cannot read a size limit out of it. (1919 US trade-manual practice; the authors' account, not a measurement.)

In the authors' definition the photoplay stage is everything the camera's range takes in, in studio or outdoors. They say it looks wide but is limited: a V-shaped area from the camera, marked with cord or wire on the floor in some studios, holds the whole set and the whole scene. A deeper set means setting the back part further off with a second pair of V lines, so the picture grows deeper and wider with the diverging lines. The chapter gives no dimensions for a stage, so a writer cannot read a size limit out of it. (1919 US trade-manual practice; the authors' account, not a measurement.)

Curator qualifications: Stage as the camera's sweep, V lines, no numeric size; the chapter's figure is absent from the plain text, as noted.

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- [sourced_fact] In the authors' definition the photoplay stage is everything the camera's range takes in, in studio or outdoors. They say it looks wide but is limited: a V-shaped area from the camera, marked with cord or wire on the floor in some studios, holds the whole set and the whole scene. A deeper set means setting the back part further off with a second pair of V lines, so the picture grows deeper and wider with the diverging lines. The chapter gives no dimensions for a stage, so a writer cannot read a size limit out of it. (1919 US trade-manual practice; the authors' account, not a measurement.) · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17903

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