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292 MULTIPLE REELS three parts merely by a division into parts as the chapters in a book are written to mark the various divisions. If your three parts total two hundred and twenty-eight scenes, your first scene is numbered one and your last two twenty-eight. You do not start each part with a scene one, but number straight through from the first scene in part one to the last scene in the last reel. You do not make out three casts nor three scene plots, and your synopsis covers your entire story. In a one reel synopsis you are permitted about two hundred and fifty words. In two reels you may have more, but you should not need five hundred words for two reels nor a thousand for a four reel script. 22. In writing the action, when you come to the end of a part you type a line about twenty spaces long under that part. You turn up two or three spaces and write "Part Two," or whatever the number of the part may be. Then you take the next higher scene number, and write the first scene in this part. You do not need to take a fresh sheet on which to start a new part, for your script will be handled as a whole and not in sections. 23. In the longer stories, those in four or more reels, you are not required to submit a plot of action; indeed, it is seldom advisable, as the matter stands, since it is almost impossible to so exactly suit the needs of a company that changes are not required. It is easier to change on the synopsis than to alter the entire run of action as written. 24. Where the synopsis alone is offered it should be double spaced and should ignore the word limit and run as full as is necessary in order to tell the action briefly but fully. If you can put it into the two hundred and fifty words per reel and make it perfectly plain, do so, but if you need nine hundred words in which to tell one reel, then take your nine hundred words per reel, for now the Editor cannot turn to the script of action to learn the minor details. 25. If the sjTiopsis alone is taken, you are apt to receive not more than a third of the price that you would be given for the full plot, For this and other reasons it is well to place on the front page of your manuscript, preferably just below the title, a request that you be permitted to make the continuity of the story. A good form of request would he: The Lure of Love A five part story In the event that this story, with changes, should meet with your approval, it is requested that the author be permitted to develop the plot of action. This is better than a statement to the effect that the author "reserves the right" to make the continuity and will have the same result. Most feature companies prefer to have the work done by their own staff and under the immediate supervision of the director who will make the production. 26. There is a tendency among beginners, particularly among those who may be termed "check chasers" rather than students, to launch at once into the preparation of five reel stories because they will pay