# What minimum elements does Sargent (1916, Ch. IX) say a photoplay plot needs (characters, purpose, struggle, solution)?

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Sargent's own final inventory (para 25) is a protagonist with an object, an antagonist who prevents it through obstacle, the protagonist's struggle, interest governed by suspense, and a question asked and answered. Plot concerns three persons or two persons and an object. The four words in the assignment (characters, purpose, struggle, solution) are not his headings: his terms are protagonist/antagonist/object, struggle, suspense and a distinct answer. Beginning/middle/end and the question-and-reply form are already in C3-B294-S100 rows.

Sargent's own final inventory (para 25) is a protagonist with an object, an antagonist who prevents it through obstacle, the protagonist's struggle, interest governed by suspense, and a question asked and answered. Plot concerns three persons or two persons and an object. The four words in the assignment (characters, purpose, struggle, solution) are not his headings: his terms are protagonist/antagonist/object, struggle, suspense and a distinct answer. Beginning/middle/end and the question-and-reply form are already in C3-B294-S100 rows.

Curator qualifications: Para 25 inventory verified; the candidate correctly notes the assignment's four words are not Sargent's headings.

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 Ch. IX lines 4345-4384"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Sargent's own final inventory (para 25) is a protagonist with an object, an antagonist who prevents it through obstacle, the protagonist's struggle, interest governed by suspense, and a question asked and answered. Plot concerns three persons or two persons and an object. The four words in the assignment (characters, purpose, struggle, solution) are not his headings: his terms are protagonist/antagonist/object, struggle, suspense and a distinct answer. Beginning/middle/end and the question-and-reply form are already in C3-B294-S100 rows. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.txt Ch. IX lines 4345-4384 · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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