# What does Sargent (Ch. XLIX, Ch. II, glossary) say reconstruction of an existing photoplay script is, how little should the reconstructor change, and where do his own statements pull in different directions?

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Sargent defines reconstruction as rearranging a faulty play into good form, says the reconstructor should make changes with the least alteration of the author's ideas, and compares him to a photographer intensifying an underdeveloped plate. But if the continuity is thrown away and only the synopsis used, the result carries the reconstructor's own style (para 19), Ch. II para 12 describes staff throwing away the action plot and writing a new one to the director's ideas, and the glossary adds "fit it to the exact needs of the studio". On this worker's reading the statements reconcile only if studio-fit changes count as the required changes; Sargent does not say so.

Sargent defines reconstruction as rearranging a faulty play into good form, says the reconstructor should make changes with the least alteration of the author's ideas, and compares him to a photographer intensifying an underdeveloped plate. But if the continuity is thrown away and only the synopsis used, the result carries the reconstructor's own style (para 19), Ch. II para 12 describes staff throwing away the action plot and writing a new one to the director's ideas, and the glossary adds "fit it to the exact needs of the studio". On this worker's reading the statements reconcile only if studio-fit changes count as the required changes; Sargent does not say so.

Curator qualifications: Adaptation order, source-type rules, event ordering, the bounded negatives on dialogue and inner thought, and reconstruction are verified as Sargent's text. The claim/example/market split in -07 holds.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIX offsets per candidate"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Sargent defines reconstruction as rearranging a faulty play into good form, says the reconstructor should make changes with the least alteration of the author's ideas, and compares him to a photographer intensifying an underdeveloped plate. But if the continuity is thrown away and only the synopsis used, the result carries the reconstructor's own style (para 19), Ch. II para 12 describes staff throwing away the action plot and writing a new one to the director's ideas, and the glossary adds "fit it to the exact needs of the studio". On this worker's reading the statements reconcile only if studio-fit changes count as the required changes; Sargent does not say so. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIX offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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