# What is the difference between a fade and a dissolve in Sargent's 1916 manual, how is a dissolve made, and how does the writer ask for it and at what cost?

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1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLII, with XLI para 9): a fade runs a scene to black or up from black without reference to the next scene; a dissolve is two fades superimposed on the same film, made in the camera (printing is possible but worse). The writer is told not to write 'fade' but to write 'dissolve to' when the extra work may be done; it is a fade vision without the dark gap, with full illumination kept, and he says it improves the effect and raises cost; the common practice for a vision is start and end fades only because dissolving every scene eats footage. His fifty-frame illustration (2 per cent steps) is an example, not a standard; the agent's arithmetic shows a one-frame inconsistency.

1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLII, with XLI para 9): a fade runs a scene to black or up from black without reference to the next scene; a dissolve is two fades superimposed on the same film, made in the camera (printing is possible but worse). The writer is told not to write 'fade' but to write 'dissolve to' when the extra work may be done; it is a fade vision without the dark gap, with full illumination kept, and he says it improves the effect and raises cost; the common practice for a vision is start and end fades only because dissolving every scene eats footage. His fifty-frame illustration (2 per cent steps) is an example, not a standard; the agent's arithmetic shows a one-frame inconsistency.

Curator qualifications: Visions (frame vs fade), fades, dissolves and apparitions are verified as Sargent's text. -05 is labelled practice plus 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] 1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XLII, with XLI para 9): a fade runs a scene to black or up from black without reference to the next scene; a dissolve is two fades superimposed on the same film, made in the camera (printing is possible but worse). The writer is told not to write 'fade' but to write 'dissolve to' when the extra work may be done; it is a fade vision without the dark gap, with full illumination kept, and he says it improves the effect and raises cost; the common practice for a vision is start and end fades only because dissolving every scene eats footage. His fifty-frame illustration (2 per cent steps) is an example, not a standard; the agent's arithmetic shows a one-frame inconsistency. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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