# What does the director decide or change from a 1916 script (Sargent, Ch. V), and which script traits does he say decide whether a director takes it?

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Sargent describes the director as the studio's autocrat who may pick his own stories, so exteriors, interiors and trick effects are matters of his taste, and a good story can be returned for that reason. He says few directors work from the script as written, the assistant prepares property and scene plots, all scenes in a set or location are shot together regardless of script order, and the assistant logs the action as played. These are claims about 1916 US studio habit.

Sargent describes the director as the studio's autocrat who may pick his own stories, so exteriors, interiors and trick effects are matters of his taste, and a good story can be returned for that reason. He says few directors work from the script as written, the assistant prepares property and scene plots, all scenes in a set or location are shot together regardless of script order, and the assistant logs the action as played. These are claims about 1916 US studio habit.

Curator qualifications: Director autocracy, out-of-order shooting by set, assistant plots verified as his claims.

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",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt lines 3544-3730"
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Sargent describes the director as the studio's autocrat who may pick his own stories, so exteriors, interiors and trick effects are matters of his taste, and a good story can be returned for that reason. He says few directors work from the script as written, the assistant prepares property and scene plots, all scenes in a set or location are shot together regardless of script order, and the assistant logs the action as played. These are claims about 1916 US studio habit. · 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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