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288 MULTIPLE REELS the greater worth of the quiet man whose value she has never learned before. 9. This, if told with the proper care for detail, will be plot enough for a one reel story. It will not be plot enough for a two reel story if the interest is to be sustained. You will have the same five minute presentation of the premise and explanation. You will have the same two minute climax, the approach may now run five instead of three minutes, but you will have ten or twelve minutes of delayed and delaying action before you arrive at the same point you should have reached at the end of the first fifteen minute reel. You have twice as much action to the same plot. You may have been a trifle crowded in a thousand feet. You have altogether too much room in twice the footage. You cannot fill it with interesting action. You cannot approach your climax with the same relative speed and keep your action fast enough to hold the interest. You must huild up the interest with more plot. You must build up the action with more action. You have a plot you can build on. You do not need another plot as long as the first. You build the original plot up by making it so much more important that it is more than twice as important as it was before, but it is not twice as long as it was before. 10. To do this perhaps you use the abandoned elopement as the end of the first reel. You merely carry on the story. Robert goes away alone. Henry, with double duty to perform, becomes ill. Nellie comes to the pesthouse and takes her place by his side. He cannot be permitted to break down. The plague is checked and Henry is acclaimed the hero of the hour. Nellie finds him a far greater man than Robert could ever be. You have another thousand feet of action, the added plot is not enough for a thousand feet by itself, but, added to what you already have, it will hold the interest for the additional reel. To go three reels you simply add still more plot. Perhaps Robert is brought to the place suffering from the disease he has sought to escape. Henry pulls him through. He makes it plain to Nellie that he knows of the affair and that he has saved Robert for her. She replies that she wants him (Henry). He explains that he knew of the affair and for her sake he did not vac- cinate himself and that he has himself caught the disease. Now she nurses him back to health, and at the point of a revolver forces the timid Robert to remain and give the proper medical care. 11. Each time you add to the footage, you must add to the plot suf- ficient plot material to give you the required thousand feet of plot action, but you can draw upon material already present for strength for the added plot factors. Just as you take the bare idea for a one reel plot and build it up by adding factors, so you build past the one reel plot to the two or more reels you require, but while you may not require twice as many factors as in the one reel plot to fill the two reels with plot action, it is required that this added material must make your story slightly more than twice as interesting, if your story is to run two reels and that for a five reel story the interest in