# When did Sargent (1916) tell a photoplay writer to call for a bust, the close view of one small action, and when to leave it out?

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1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XXXV): call for a bust when a small action decides the plot and would be missed or not understood in the full scene (a pistol slipped into a pocket, a safe combination, a stone swapped at a bench), when a trick effect must be controlled, or when a held two-person scene needs a break that also plants an object. Leave it out for inanimate objects (write an insert), as a scene ending (return to the larger scene), as a frequent habit, or as a fix for a weak story. His text names no purpose of showing facial expression in this chapter (see negative_results).

1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XXXV): call for a bust when a small action decides the plot and would be missed or not understood in the full scene (a pistol slipped into a pocket, a safe combination, a stone swapped at a bench), when a trick effect must be controlled, or when a held two-person scene needs a break that also plants an object. Leave it out for inanimate objects (write an insert), as a scene ending (return to the larger scene), as a frequent habit, or as a fix for a weak story. His text names no purpose of showing facial expression in this chapter (see negative_results).

Curator qualifications: When to call or omit a bust verified; facial-expression negative confirmed with the quoted-phrase caveat.

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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XXXV): call for a bust when a small action decides the plot and would be missed or not understood in the full scene (a pistol slipped into a pocket, a safe combination, a stone swapped at a bench), when a trick effect must be controlled, or when a held two-person scene needs a break that also plants an object. Leave it out for inanimate objects (write an insert), as a scene ending (return to the larger scene), as a frequent habit, or as a fix for a weak story. His text names no purpose of showing facial expression in this chapter (see negative_results). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.flat[437482:450568] (Ch. XXXV heading to Ch. XXXVI heading) · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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