# What does Sargent (1916, Ch. LXXI "Prize Schemes") tell a photoplay writer about scenario prize contests: what kinds exist, why they exist, and why he says to stay out?

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1916 practice, Sargent only. Three forms: newspaper advertising contests; company script contests that buy others at average prices; a magazine "contest" gathering names for a sucker list. Reasons: advertising, sometimes better material cheaply. Against: writers drop regular work, long odds on numbers he supposes, entries may be unread or fixed, delay costs more than a prize earns. Numbers and the sucker-list case are suppositions or unnamed.

1916 practice, Sargent only. Three forms: newspaper advertising contests; company script contests that buy others at average prices; a magazine "contest" gathering names for a sucker list. Reasons: advertising, sometimes better material cheaply. Against: writers drop regular work, long odds on numbers he supposes, entries may be unread or fixed, delay costs more than a prize earns. Numbers and the sucker-list case are suppositions or unnamed.

Curator qualifications: Contest forms and reasons verified as his statements; numbers are suppositions and the sucker-list case unnamed, as labelled.

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

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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt Ch. LXVIII lines ~22880-23130"
    }
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice, Sargent only. Three forms: newspaper advertising contests; company script contests that buy others at average prices; a magazine "contest" gathering names for a sucker list. Reasons: advertising, sometimes better material cheaply. Against: writers drop regular work, long odds on numbers he supposes, entries may be unread or fixed, delay costs more than a prize earns. Numbers and the sucker-list case are suppositions or unnamed. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt Ch. LXVIII lines ~22880-23130 · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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