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220 CONTINUITY your foot and you will have a combination of differing actions com- parable to typewriting, planning action and punctuating with leader and insert. Make the machine work mechanical and the use of leader and insert instinctive and you may then center your conscious thought on the story itself. 21. The plot of action is your complete play. In it must be shown each leader or other insert, each bust or close-up, such light and other effects as may be imperatively demanded and all of the action that tells your story. It should be so complete in each detail and so perfect in its every part that any director making your action, employing your leaders and inserts and nothing else can get a perfect and interesting play. Nothing short of this will suflice if you would merit the title of author. And bear always in mind that the plot of action, no mat- ter how perfect it may appear to the eye, is worthless and irritating if it is not used to expose a well-planned and gripping story. Editors are not in search of examples of well-written technical form. They seek stories; not model scripts, and perfection of form is of avail only when it makes more clear and understandable the underlying plot. The plot of action is your advertisement of knowledge, it announces your proficiency, but if you seek to make the form conceal the lack of idea, then your advertisement is misleading and your misbranded goods will be more than ever despised. (l.XLVni:36-37) (2.LXV:26) (3.X\T :3) (8.IX:16) (9.XIV: 15 XXVIII :7 XLI:2) (10.IX:8 XIII :7 XXIV :9 XXXIX :12- 15) (ll.XIV:15-16 L:32 LVIIrlO) (12.IX:10 XIV:18 XIX :7) (13.XVIII:13 XXXIX :13) (15.XIV:5) (18.XLV:5) (19.XIX:7 XXXIII :2). CHAPTER XLIV CONTINUITY CONTINUITY of action is the easy and orderly progress of that action. Employed as a noun as "a continuity of action" or mere- ly as "a" or "the" continuity, it refers to the written plot of action, which is presupposed to possess continuity. 2. Some times in reading a fiction story you will find the action so changeable that in your effort to follow the author through his plot you suffer a perceptible fatigue. In others the story is narrated with such a directness that the absence of such phrases as "In the mean- time—" "It must be remembered that—" "But before this—" is pleas- antly noticed and the lack appreciated. Such stories seem fairly to flow along. This is continuity. 3. Continuity in a photoplay is even more essential. The flow of a screen story should be like the current of a river; a steady and con- stant progression to the objective point. Rivers may have falls and