# Does Phillips (1914, Ch. IV) give any length or number limits for captions, inserts and other devices, and do the chapter's own examples fit the limits stated elsewhere?

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1914 practice (Phillips) negative result, bounded to Ch. IV: no word, footage, count or frequency limit appears; limits are qualitative ('too frequently', 'dangerously long', 'mercilessly'). The 15-word caption and 20-word insert figures are in Ch. IX (cited via C3-B259-S74-05). A code-derived count of the chapter's printed examples shows every caption counted at 12 words or fewer, but letter inserts of 20-21 and 35-36 words, so Phillips's own Example 17 exceeds the Ch. IX insert figure unless abridged.

1914 practice (Phillips) negative result, bounded to Ch. IV: no word, footage, count or frequency limit appears; limits are qualitative ('too frequently', 'dangerously long', 'mercilessly'). The 15-word caption and 20-word insert figures are in Ch. IX (cited via C3-B259-S74-05). A code-derived count of the chapter's printed examples shows every caption counted at 12 words or fewer, but letter inserts of 20-21 and 35-36 words, so Phillips's own Example 17 exceeds the Ch. IX insert figure unless abridged.

Curator qualifications: Negative for Ch. IV confirmed. Cross-link: Ch. IX's 'every word means a foot of film', read with the about 1 ft/s rate (Lutz; Esenwein and Leeds Ch. XIII), makes a 15-word caption about 15 s of screen time. This is curator arithmetic, not Phillips's statement.

Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt",
      "note": "Ch. IX L2395-2396"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [inference] 1914 practice (Phillips) negative result, bounded to Ch. IV: no word, footage, count or frequency limit appears; limits are qualitative ('too frequently', 'dangerously long', 'mercilessly'). The 15-word caption and 20-word insert figures are in Ch. IX (cited via C3-B259-S74-05). A code-derived count of the chapter's printed examples shows every caption counted at 12 words or fewer, but letter inserts of 20-21 and 35-36 words, so Phillips's own Example 17 exceeds the Ch. IX insert figure unless abridged. · locator: Ch. IX L2395-2396 · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt

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