# What does Sargent (1916) say a scenario writer should leave to the director and the players, and when may the writer specify detailed business?

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1916 practice. Sargent says the writer gives story facts and leaves minor detail, locations and exact movements to the director, whose version may suit the actors better. He allows detailed business only when it is likely to be unusually effective, and says authors seldom beat the director. He offers one detailed garden scene as a 'suggestion' and says experience will show when to detail. He also names a duty that stays with the writer: a close-up when expression carries the meaning. He gives no rule beyond experience for the boundary.

1916 practice. Sargent says the writer gives story facts and leaves minor detail, locations and exact movements to the director, whose version may suit the actors better. He allows detailed business only when it is likely to be unusually effective, and says authors seldom beat the director. He offers one detailed garden scene as a 'suggestion' and says experience will show when to detail. He also names a duty that stays with the writer: a close-up when expression carries the meaning. He gives no rule beyond experience for the boundary.

Curator qualifications: Writer-director division of business: story facts to writer, staging to director, detailed business only when unusually effective; close-up duty stays with writer. Boundary is experience only, as candidate states.

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; sar.txt lines 10719-11226 (Ch. XXXIII; XXXIV heading at 11194+)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice. Sargent says the writer gives story facts and leaves minor detail, locations and exact movements to the director, whose version may suit the actors better. He allows detailed business only when it is likely to be unusually effective, and says authors seldom beat the director. He offers one detailed garden scene as a 'suggestion' and says experience will show when to detail. He also names a duty that stays with the writer: a close-up when expression carries the meaning. He gives no rule beyond experience for the boundary. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt lines 10719-11226 (Ch. XXXIII; XXXIV heading at 11194+) · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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