This may be accomplished in two ways: You may either show a
paragraph in the body of the letter, with a line or two just before
and just after it, thus:
On screen, letter.
and it was from him that I learned the truth.
I'll leave for Wheeling on the first train tomorrow, and
hope to clasp your hand again before Monday night.
Honestly, old man, it seems too, etc.
or you may write out the ending of the letter in such a way as to
suggest that much more has been said in the forepart of the message,
thus:
On screen, letter, folded down to show only this:
so I'll leave for Wheeling on the first train tomorrow, and
hope to clasp your hand again before Monday night.
Honestly, old man, it seems too good to be true. I won't be
able to believe that what Morgan told me _is_ true until I
see you with my own eyes.
Until then, believe me to be
As ever, your sincere friend,
Stephen Loring.
To illustrate the way a letter will consume footage, we reproduce one
for which fifteen feet were allowed.
Lord Cornwallis:
Am now within forty miles of Charlottesville. Thomas
Jefferson and the entire Virginia Assembly will be my
prisoners today.
Tarleton.
As we know, a letter will sometimes be written by a character in one
scene, but the spectators will not learn its exact contents--though
they may know just about what he is writing--until a scene or two
later, when the letter is delivered to and read by the one to whom it
is addressed.
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