# How does Sargent (1916) tell a writer to budget leaders, titles and inserts inside a reel, and does he endorse per-scene footage allotments or stopwatch timing?

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1916 practice (Sargent): the writer can gauge inserted matter more closely than scenes. He gives 100 to 200 feet per reel for inserts, about a foot per leader word (3 ft minimum), a title of about 10 ft, a tailpiece or censor tag of 10 to 15, letters 10 to 25 and other inserts 5 to 10. Subtracting these shows roughly how much footage remains for action, 'never better than a guess'. He reports per-scene footage schemes (too inflexible in practice) and stopwatch timing (only a rough idea, and the student watches the watch).

1916 practice (Sargent): the writer can gauge inserted matter more closely than scenes. He gives 100 to 200 feet per reel for inserts, about a foot per leader word (3 ft minimum), a title of about 10 ft, a tailpiece or censor tag of 10 to 15, letters 10 to 25 and other inserts 5 to 10. Subtracting these shows roughly how much footage remains for action, 'never better than a guess'. He reports per-scene footage schemes (too inflexible in practice) and stopwatch timing (only a rough idea, and the student watches the watch).

Curator qualifications: Footage and bust rules are verified as Sargent's text. The foot-equals-second conversion follows from his 16 frames a second and 16 frames to the foot (curator check). Arithmetic rows are worker code (work/build.py), not run by the curator.

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

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XXXIV-XXXV"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent): the writer can gauge inserted matter more closely than scenes. He gives 100 to 200 feet per reel for inserts, about a foot per leader word (3 ft minimum), a title of about 10 ft, a tailpiece or censor tag of 10 to 15, letters 10 to 25 and other inserts 5 to 10. Subtracting these shows roughly how much footage remains for action, 'never better than a guess'. He reports per-scene footage schemes (too inflexible in practice) and stopwatch timing (only a rough idea, and the student watches the watch). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XXXIV-XXXV · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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