# What do correspondence schools for photoplay writing offer according to Sargent (1916, Ch. LXX paras 2-11), and what warnings does he give?

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1916 practice, Sargent's statements only. He calls most correspondence schools frankly fraudulent, and describes their offer: a short course (he says first priced at thirty dollars, later cut to as little as two, most held at four), installment payments, and criticism by numbered form paragraphs that always flatter. He reports advertising claims such as that anyone can learn and an income of fifty dollars weekly is insured. He allows that not all schools are swindles, but says two or more years are needed to master plotting and a short course cannot supply it. He is a seller of a textbook and addresses that objection himself (E12).

1916 practice, Sargent's statements only. He calls most correspondence schools frankly fraudulent, and describes their offer: a short course (he says first priced at thirty dollars, later cut to as little as two, most held at four), installment payments, and criticism by numbered form paragraphs that always flatter. He reports advertising claims such as that anyone can learn and an income of fifty dollars weekly is insured. He allows that not all schools are swindles, but says two or more years are needed to master plotting and a short course cannot supply it. He is a seller of a textbook and addresses that objection himself (E12).

Curator qualifications: Sargent's views on alleged idea theft, correspondence schools, revision bureaus and agencies are verified as his statements; claims are separated from examples. -05 is labelled practice plus proposal.

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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice, Sargent's statements only. He calls most correspondence schools frankly fraudulent, and describes their offer: a short course (he says first priced at thirty dollars, later cut to as little as two, most held at four), installment payments, and criticism by numbered form paragraphs that always flatter. He reports advertising claims such as that anyone can learn and an income of fifty dollars weekly is insured. He allows that not all schools are swindles, but says two or more years are needed to master plotting and a short course cannot supply it. He is a seller of a textbook and addresses that objection himself (E12). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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