# What does Sargent (1916, Ch. LXX paras 12-18) say about revision bureaus, sales agencies, literary agents and offers to make the film, with what figures, and which are claims versus examples?

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1916 practice, Sargent's statements only. Revision bureaus and sales agencies, he says, arose when schools lost appeal; they profit from revision and typing fees, not from commissions, and so delay returning scripts. Bulk submissions, he says, often did not fit the studio's style. He argues technique must be the writer's own and that a good plot sells in any form. He says an offer to film the story costs thirty to forty cents a foot while good professional negative sells for sixty cents to a dollar and a quarter, and that the best literary agent can do little for an author not already in demand. He ends with 'avoid all of these traps'.

1916 practice, Sargent's statements only. Revision bureaus and sales agencies, he says, arose when schools lost appeal; they profit from revision and typing fees, not from commissions, and so delay returning scripts. Bulk submissions, he says, often did not fit the studio's style. He argues technique must be the writer's own and that a good plot sells in any form. He says an offer to film the story costs thirty to forty cents a foot while good professional negative sells for sixty cents to a dollar and a quarter, and that the best literary agent can do little for an author not already in demand. He ends with 'avoid all of these traps'.

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.

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

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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice, Sargent's statements only. Revision bureaus and sales agencies, he says, arose when schools lost appeal; they profit from revision and typing fees, not from commissions, and so delay returning scripts. Bulk submissions, he says, often did not fit the studio's style. He argues technique must be the writer's own and that a good plot sells in any form. He says an offer to film the story costs thirty to forty cents a foot while good professional negative sells for sixty cents to a dollar and a quarter, and that the best literary agent can do little for an author not already in demand. He ends with 'avoid all of these traps'. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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