# What filters does Sargent (1916) give for what an action line may carry (plot relevance, one point per scene), and what does he say about verbs and wording?

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1916 practice. Sargent's filters in Ch. XXXIII: every written action must advance the story; no scene for pretty background; one point per scene; add earlier-established facts as allusion to enrich a scene without confusing it. Wording: the chapter states no verb or adjective rule (0 hits in the chapter range), only the pattern of his brief scripts, which are terse fragments and keep a camera direction. The enriched scene example is not labelled by-play.

1916 practice. Sargent's filters in Ch. XXXIII: every written action must advance the story; no scene for pretty background; one point per scene; add earlier-established facts as allusion to enrich a scene without confusing it. Wording: the chapter states no verb or adjective rule (0 hits in the chapter range), only the pattern of his brief scripts, which are terse fragments and keep a camera direction. The enriched scene example is not labelled by-play.

Curator qualifications: Scene filters (advance story, no pretty-background scenes, one point per scene, allusion to prior facts) verified; 'no verb or adjective rule' negative confirmed by 0 grep hits in chapter range.

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's filters in Ch. XXXIII: every written action must advance the story; no scene for pretty background; one point per scene; add earlier-established facts as allusion to enrich a scene without confusing it. Wording: the chapter states no verb or adjective rule (0 hits in the chapter range), only the pattern of his brief scripts, which are terse fragments and keep a camera direction. The enriched scene example is not labelled by-play. · 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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