# Which specific production items (sets, extras, costume, properties, actor types, locations, travel, effects) does Sargent (1916, Ch. XVII) say drive cost or limit what a free-lance script should call for, and what numbers does he give?

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Sargent itemises where cost sits for a 1916 free-lance script: interior sets (20 sets for 45 scenes versus 7), costume (company must supply for non-contemporary or strange settings), properties that must be made, extras ($1-$5 a day, more days if mob scenes are scattered), unusual actor types, mixed climates, trains ($50-$100 if hired; free if a regular train at a station is used), aeroplanes and ships at sea. Practised workarounds he gives: plan mobs for one day with a few retained, unity of locale, stock footage used sparingly, stock aeroplane plus a cloth brick. Numbers are his unverified trade assertions; the chapter has no animals, children-policy or lighting items (bounded below).

Sargent itemises where cost sits for a 1916 free-lance script: interior sets (20 sets for 45 scenes versus 7), costume (company must supply for non-contemporary or strange settings), properties that must be made, extras ($1-$5 a day, more days if mob scenes are scattered), unusual actor types, mixed climates, trains ($50-$100 if hired; free if a regular train at a station is used), aeroplanes and ships at sea. Practised workarounds he gives: plan mobs for one day with a few retained, unity of locale, stock footage used sparingly, stock aeroplane plus a cloth brick. Numbers are his unverified trade assertions; the chapter has no animals, children-policy or lighting items (bounded below).

Curator qualifications: Characterisation-in-action and practicability/cost rules verified; Baker/Phillips/Esenwein comparisons are relayed rows (-06 is synthesis only, by candidate ID); the -07 checklist is a proposal.

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

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate"
    }
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}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Sargent itemises where cost sits for a 1916 free-lance script: interior sets (20 sets for 45 scenes versus 7), costume (company must supply for non-contemporary or strange settings), properties that must be made, extras ($1-$5 a day, more days if mob scenes are scattered), unusual actor types, mixed climates, trains ($50-$100 if hired; free if a regular train at a station is used), aeroplanes and ships at sea. Practised workarounds he gives: plan mobs for one day with a few retained, unity of locale, stock footage used sparingly, stock aeroplane plus a cloth brick. Numbers are his unverified trade assertions; the chapter has no animals, children-policy or lighting items (bounded below). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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