# How does Sargent (1916) tell a writer to come up with a photoplay title and when to fix it, and does he say whether the author's title is usually kept?

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Sargent advises generating a dozen or more titles, keeping a card file, harvesting phrases daily, and not writing the title on the script until the story is settled; a writer may offer two titles. Chapter XXVII does not say whether the editor or studio usually keeps the author's title, and regex searches of the whole pinned text (listed patterns only) matched no passage on retitling a story. His one statement about the studio rewriting the author's words concerns leaders (intertitles), a different practice cited by ID.

Sargent advises generating a dozen or more titles, keeping a card file, harvesting phrases daily, and not writing the title on the script until the story is settled; a writer may offer two titles. Chapter XXVII does not say whether the editor or studio usually keeps the author's title, and regex searches of the whole pinned text (listed patterns only) matched no passage on retitling a story. His one statement about the studio rewriting the author's words concerns leaders (intertitles), a different practice cited by ID.

Curator qualifications: Title generation practice verified; retitling negative bounded to listed patterns.

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.flat spot checks"
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```

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- [sourced_fact] Sargent advises generating a dozen or more titles, keeping a card file, harvesting phrases daily, and not writing the title on the script until the story is settled; a writer may offer two titles. Chapter XXVII does not say whether the editor or studio usually keeps the author's title, and regex searches of the whole pinned text (listed patterns only) matched no passage on retitling a story. His one statement about the studio rewriting the author's words concerns leaders (intertitles), a different practice cited by ID. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.flat spot checks · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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