# According to Sargent (1916, Ch. IV), when does a scene go to a real location instead of a built studio set, and what does he say about location cost?

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Sargent says the choice between a studio-built exterior and a real location is the director's, made on cost: build when a set is cheaper, move the company when the story needs a convincing distant place (his example: Cuba), and locations usually cost less to hire than the inside sets cost to erect. Crowded city streets are what directors avoid. His one cost range is 'a cigar to several hundred dollars' for a location, without year or unit.

Sargent says the choice between a studio-built exterior and a real location is the director's, made on cost: build when a set is cheaper, move the company when the story needs a convincing distant place (his example: Cuba), and locations usually cost less to hire than the inside sets cost to erect. Crowded city streets are what directors avoid. His one cost range is 'a cigar to several hundred dollars' for a location, without year or unit.

Curator qualifications: Location vs built set choice by cost, Cuba example and the unit-less cost range verified.

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

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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Sargent says the choice between a studio-built exterior and a real location is the director's, made on cost: build when a set is cheaper, move the company when the story needs a convincing distant place (his example: Cuba), and locations usually cost less to hire than the inside sets cost to erect. Crowded city streets are what directors avoid. His one cost range is 'a cigar to several hundred dollars' for a location, without year or unit. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt lines 3544-3730 · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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