# PROPOSAL (not a 1916 claim): how could an agent shot-list rule and check be built on Sargent's bust rules, and how might they map to present-day close-up and coverage choices?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T17:37:51.518Z
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PROPOSAL, labelled as such. 1916 practice (Sargent): bust for a small action that carries plot meaning, return to the larger scene, insert for inanimate objects, use sparingly. Proposed agent rule: a detail-shot entry must carry the one action, the reason a wide shot would hide it, a pointer back to its wide shot, and a kind (body action versus object). Proposed mapping (hypothesis, untested; no present-day coverage source was read here): Sargent's bust is a tight detail on one action inside the same set, his insert a separate prop or text shot, his return the cut back to the wide view. Sargent gives no numerical density limit; any limit is an experiment parameter.

PROPOSAL, labelled as such. 1916 practice (Sargent): bust for a small action that carries plot meaning, return to the larger scene, insert for inanimate objects, use sparingly. Proposed agent rule: a detail-shot entry must carry the one action, the reason a wide shot would hide it, a pointer back to its wide shot, and a kind (body action versus object). Proposed mapping (hypothesis, untested; no present-day coverage source was read here): Sargent's bust is a tight detail on one action inside the same set, his insert a separate prop or text shot, his return the cut back to the wide view. Sargent gives no numerical density limit; any limit is an experiment parameter.

Curator qualifications: Detail-shot entry rule and modern mapping are the worker proposal (untested), labelled.

Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.flat[437482:450568] (Ch. XXXV heading to Ch. XXXVI heading)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [proposal] PROPOSAL, labelled as such. 1916 practice (Sargent): bust for a small action that carries plot meaning, return to the larger scene, insert for inanimate objects, use sparingly. Proposed agent rule: a detail-shot entry must carry the one action, the reason a wide shot would hide it, a pointer back to its wide shot, and a kind (body action versus object). Proposed mapping (hypothesis, untested; no present-day coverage source was read here): Sargent's bust is a tight detail on one action inside the same set, his insert a separate prop or text shot, his return the cut back to the wide view. Sargent gives no numerical density limit; any limit is an experiment parameter. · 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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