# AGENT CHECK (1916 practice and a proposal): what checklist can an agent run on a silent-film scene list for length and bust/insert use, using only what Sargent states in Ch. XXXIV-XXXV, and where do the cited sources disagree?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T18:04:27.970Z
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1916 practice, from Sargent (Ch. XXXIV-XXXV): convert at a foot a second, subtract 100 to 200 ft for inserts, do not predict footage from scene, word or page counts, use busts for small actions, return to the wide scene, use them sparingly. PROPOSAL (mine, untested): a six-step check that labels each result 'Sargent states', 'arithmetic' or 'guess'. A tension register (T1 to T5) lists where Sargent, Phillips (C3-B257-S72-01), Esenwein and Leeds (C3-B188-S42-03) and Lutz (C3-B268-S81-03) differ, by candidate ID.

1916 practice, from Sargent (Ch. XXXIV-XXXV): convert at a foot a second, subtract 100 to 200 ft for inserts, do not predict footage from scene, word or page counts, use busts for small actions, return to the wide scene, use them sparingly. PROPOSAL (mine, untested): a six-step check that labels each result 'Sargent states', 'arithmetic' or 'guess'. A tension register (T1 to T5) lists where Sargent, Phillips (C3-B257-S72-01), Esenwein and Leeds (C3-B188-S42-03) and Lutz (C3-B268-S81-03) differ, by candidate ID.

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: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

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

Evidence claims:
- [inference] 1916 practice, from Sargent (Ch. XXXIV-XXXV): convert at a foot a second, subtract 100 to 200 ft for inserts, do not predict footage from scene, word or page counts, use busts for small actions, return to the wide scene, use them sparingly. PROPOSAL (mine, untested): a six-step check that labels each result 'Sargent states', 'arithmetic' or 'guess'. A tension register (T1 to T5) lists where Sargent, Phillips (C3-B257-S72-01), Esenwein and Leeds (C3-B188-S42-03) and Lutz (C3-B268-S81-03) differ, by candidate ID. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XXXIV-XXXV · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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