# When does Sargent (1916) say a spoken line should be shown as a cut-in rather than a straight leader, how is a cut-in written, and how many may a scene have?

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1916 practice (Sargent): a cut-in is a leader placed inside a scene as a character's speech; he calls it less intrusive than a straight leader and a way to hold back a fact until it lands. It replaces the spoken speech rather than repeating it; a scene must return from it; he sets two per scene as a ceiling and prefers one. The wording must be everyday speech.

1916 practice (Sargent): a cut-in is a leader placed inside a scene as a character's speech; he calls it less intrusive than a straight leader and a way to hold back a fact until it lands. It replaces the spoken speech rather than repeating it; a scene must return from it; he sets two per scene as a ceiling and prefers one. The wording must be everyday speech.

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.

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

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent): a cut-in is a leader placed inside a scene as a character's speech; he calls it less intrusive than a straight leader and a way to hold back a fact until it lands. It replaces the spoken speech rather than repeating it; a scene must return from it; he sets two per scene as a ceiling and prefers one. The wording must be everyday speech. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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