# In Sargent's 1916 chapter 'Leaders and Cut-Ins', what is a leader, which kinds does he name, and when does he say one is justified?

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1916 practice (Sargent, a US trade manual for silent photoplays): a leader is printed matter on screen for what cannot be conveyed by subtler means. He names straight, fact, time, break and cut-in leaders. His test for a leader is that it tells in the smallest footage a fact action cannot convey; the aim is as few leaders as possible, but every necessary one. A leader costs the viewer one to three seconds of mental adjustment.

1916 practice (Sargent, a US trade manual for silent photoplays): a leader is printed matter on screen for what cannot be conveyed by subtler means. He names straight, fact, time, break and cut-in leaders. His test for a leader is that it tells in the smallest footage a fact action cannot convey; the aim is as few leaders as possible, but every necessary one. A leader costs the viewer one to three seconds of mental adjustment.

Curator qualifications: Leader types (straight, fact, time, break, cut-in), the cut-in as in-scene speech, time-leader wording and misuses are verified as Sargent's text. The seven-check list (-05) is labelled practice plus proposal.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent, a US trade manual for silent photoplays): a leader is printed matter on screen for what cannot be conveyed by subtler means. He names straight, fact, time, break and cut-in leaders. His test for a leader is that it tells in the smallest footage a fact action cannot convey; the aim is as few leaders as possible, but every necessary one. A leader costs the viewer one to three seconds of mental adjustment. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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