# What does Sargent's Chapter XLVII NOT say about emphasis: does it name repetition, scene length, footage, counts or ratios, or a quantity of emphasis that is too much?

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Negative result, bounded to Ch. XLVII (sar.flat 671429-684201) on joined, whitespace-collapsed text: no 'repeat' or 'repetition', no feet, minutes, reels, costs, ratios or per cents, and no frequency word such as 'often'; 'second' occurs once (below); 'footage' occurs once (in the fist-fight example) and 'length' only in 'a lengthy and disturbing leader'. The one duration is 'half a second or more' in an example. The proportion rule is qualitative ('commensurate with their value and no more'). So the 'length, repetition' devices an emphasis checklist might expect are not in this chapter; the nearest are slowing the action and placement (-02). A ratio exists in another chapter (C3-B302-S107-03).

Negative result, bounded to Ch. XLVII (sar.flat 671429-684201) on joined, whitespace-collapsed text: no 'repeat' or 'repetition', no feet, minutes, reels, costs, ratios or per cents, and no frequency word such as 'often'; 'second' occurs once (below); 'footage' occurs once (in the fist-fight example) and 'length' only in 'a lengthy and disturbing leader'. The one duration is 'half a second or more' in an example. The proportion rule is qualitative ('commensurate with their value and no more'). So the 'length, repetition' devices an emphasis checklist might expect are not in this chapter; the nearest are slowing the action and placement (-02). A ratio exists in another chapter (C3-B302-S107-03).

Curator qualifications: Value and emphasis rules are verified as Sargent's text: the implied promise that prominence will pay off, emphasis methods, and character importance by plot connection. The bounded negatives hold on whole-word counts.

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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLVII offsets per candidate"
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Negative result, bounded to Ch. XLVII (sar.flat 671429-684201) on joined, whitespace-collapsed text: no 'repeat' or 'repetition', no feet, minutes, reels, costs, ratios or per cents, and no frequency word such as 'often'; 'second' occurs once (below); 'footage' occurs once (in the fist-fight example) and 'length' only in 'a lengthy and disturbing leader'. The one duration is 'half a second or more' in an example. The proportion rule is qualitative ('commensurate with their value and no more'). So the 'length, repetition' devices an emphasis checklist might expect are not in this chapter; the nearest are slowing the action and placement (-02). A ratio exists in another chapter (C3-B302-S107-03). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLVII offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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