# According to Sargent (1916, Ch. LXV), how long should a writer wait, what does a printed rejection slip mean, when may the script be resubmitted, and what inquiry and withdrawal steps does he lay out?

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1916 practice. Sargent says impatience cannot speed a decision; a printed thank-you slip means only that the studio does not want the story; editors stopped adding hints because of angry replies; a rejected script goes to the next company, and a materially changed one may return later if the changes are stated. He sets a ladder: inquire after about eight weeks, formal demand by registered letter at three months, then a registered formal withdrawal and resend; he also advises a withdrawal letter to a defunct company. The Marc Edmund Jones card is his example of repeated rewrites, not proof of a rule.

1916 practice. Sargent says impatience cannot speed a decision; a printed thank-you slip means only that the studio does not want the story; editors stopped adding hints because of angry replies; a rejected script goes to the next company, and a materially changed one may return later if the changes are stated. He sets a ladder: inquire after about eight weeks, formal demand by registered letter at three months, then a registered formal withdrawal and resend; he also advises a withdrawal letter to a defunct company. The Marc Edmund Jones card is his example of repeated rewrites, not proof of a rule.

Curator qualifications: Marketing, record-keeping, waiting and release-slip practice are verified as Sargent's 1916 trade advice. -04 correctly avoids legal conclusions about the release slip's partial copyright assignment.

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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice. Sargent says impatience cannot speed a decision; a printed thank-you slip means only that the studio does not want the story; editors stopped adding hints because of angry replies; a rejected script goes to the next company, and a materially changed one may return later if the changes are stated. He sets a ladder: inquire after about eight weeks, formal demand by registered letter at three months, then a registered formal withdrawal and resend; he also advises a withdrawal letter to a defunct company. The Marc Edmund Jones card is his example of repeated rewrites, not proof of a rule. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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