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CHAPTER XXXII 135 ceding chapter that tlie scene number is used to identify the scene in the developing room and joining department. It also serves as a guide to the director in connecting the scene with the scene plot. 2. All of the action made in one set or location at one time is one scene. If the camera is stopped, then the scene stops, though the ac- tion of the scene, as it is understood in dramatic work, may be con- tinued. With this the photoplay writer has nothing to do. He is numbering scenes for a certain purpose and must use numbers in ac- cordance with photoplay usage. All of the action of players in a scene or set is a single scene only so long as the camera keeps turning. When the camera is stopped, a few feet of film will be turned down without exposure and this will be marked with the next exposure num- ber. A negative (exposure) number may cover several scenes, but each scene must still have a number, though three scenes may be made as one negative. 3. Leaders that are cut in do not interrupt a scene, as they are cut in after the scene is made and assembled. An insert does not inter- rupt the action of a scene, because the insert is not made with the taking camera. A bust does end a scene because the bust picture is a scene in itself. A close-up picture does stop a scene because the close- up is a scene in itself. This is because the bust and the close-up are made with the taking camera or with one held in reserve. 4. If a director has two cameramen, he will, when the scene has many interruptions, use one camera for the scene and the other for the small parts, the first camera being kept on its points and the other being moved about. Where there is but one camera, the places on the floor where the points of the tripod rest are marked. The camera is moved away and then moved back to this precise spot that the latter half of a scene split by a bust or clo.se-up may be made from the same viewpoint as the first. 5. Where one scene dissolves into the next, there are two numbers, though the action is continuous. Because you see Jim stare into space while the picture fades into the happy days he is thinking about and then fades back to Jim again, it is not one scene but three. There has been no interruption and no apparent stoppage of the camera, but you know that there has been stoppage and so you write three scene num- bers. In Example B Dave thinks of the time he gave Mary the en- gagement ring. We see this incident and come back to Dave. It is apparently one scene, but you will note that there are three scene num- bers because the scene is in three parts, each of which must have a separate identity in the film until the whole is assembled. The director will make these three parts precisely as though they were three scenes. Scenes 8-9-10 in F-1 also show a fade vision. 6. Scenes are numbered in consecutive order from the first to the last. If there are two or more reels, the numbering is continuous from scene one of the first reel to the highest number in the last. If two parts each carried the same scene numbers and the picture is made as a whole, confusion will arise.