# How does Sargent (1916, Ch. XXXVIII) say to write a close-up in a script: numbering, wording, what to leave to the director, and what about a moving (truck) close-up?

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1916 practice: a close-up is its own numbered scene because the action and the turning of the camera stop while the camera is brought to the new position. The entry reads 'Close-up of [subject] -- action -- action', often alternating with 'Big scene' entries that name the wide action again. The writer asks for the close-up but does not say where the camera stands ('no compass bearings'): the director sees the actual scene and places it. A gradual-enlargement close-up on a camera truck is rare and mostly trick work, so write the straight close-up and let the director substitute the truck.

1916 practice: a close-up is its own numbered scene because the action and the turning of the camera stop while the camera is brought to the new position. The entry reads 'Close-up of [subject] -- action -- action', often alternating with 'Big scene' entries that name the wide action again. The writer asks for the close-up but does not say where the camera stands ('no compass bearings'): the director sees the actual scene and places it. A gradual-enlargement close-up on a camera truck is rare and mostly trick work, so write the straight close-up and let the director substitute the truck.

Curator qualifications: Close-up definition, jobs, numbering as separate scenes, cautions and the bounded 'no ratio' negative are verified as Sargent's text. The density figures in -04 are counts of his own printed examples.

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) ch. XXXVIII offsets per candidate"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice: a close-up is its own numbered scene because the action and the turning of the camera stop while the camera is brought to the new position. The entry reads 'Close-up of [subject] -- action -- action', often alternating with 'Big scene' entries that name the wide action again. The writer asks for the close-up but does not say where the camera stands ('no compass bearings'): the director sees the actual scene and places it. A gradual-enlargement close-up on a camera truck is rare and mostly trick work, so write the straight close-up and let the director substitute the truck. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XXXVIII offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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