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286 MULTIPLE REELS not be extraneous matter brought in merely to make the action more amusing. This is a point wherein so many beginners err. They think that they can put anything into a farce and it will be accepted. It will not be acceptable unless it is action that seems naturally to arise from the story. If this is held in mind it will be more simple to write even knockabout that is at least not stupidly irritating. (6.LVI:15) (7.XLIII:11) (8.XXV:19 LVI :33) (13.LVI:11). CHAPTER LVIII MULTIPLE REELS WHEN the second edition of this book was going to press, the two part story was just coming into fashion and it was then possible only to offer a resume of the studio practice without suggesting any definite form. Almost every studio was working on the form of the double reel and there was no uniformity of usage. To- day the fads have been tried out and discarded and Editors and di- rectors sanely regard the multiple reel story as one which differs from the one reel merely in the matter of length, which in turn affects ques- tions of tempo and plot to some degree. 2. On the part of authors, however, there still seems to be a ten- dency to regard the multiple reel as something quite apart from the short length story. Some even have written to express the hope that in the next edition there would be many more chapters devoted to the multiple. There is not a line in the second, third and fourth parts of the current volume that is not as applicable to tlie multiple as to the single reel, and it is not necessary in this chapter to do more than point out the minor differences between the single and multiple reel story. 3. A multiple reel story is no more than a story requiring two or more parts (or acts) for its telling. It is merely a story in two or three or four or more thousand feet instead of a story limited to a single thousand foot length. It is probable, however, that through the long story will eventually come the natural length story; the story that may run twelve hundred or twenty-three hundred and fifty, or four thousand eight hundred feet as the story falls. Already there is shown a disposition to disregard the thousand foot yardstick and to let them run as they will, within reason. 4. ^Multiple reel stories are no more than stories longer than the one reel length, but it must be remembered that in fiction the short story and the novel and novelette offer slight differences in technique and that the one act play differs from that intended to run an entire evening. If you have a short story, condensation is the first requirement. If you have a one act play it should contain as much