Red River

Specify the encompassing pressure of S, trace how it contracts through bodies and groups into A, then compare the institutional, spatial, and force relations of S with S′. If only a task is completed while the situation remains unchanged, the circuit has not been demonstrated.

What initially unintelligible act does the shot give us? Which index of lack or equivocity makes its situation inferable, and how does that inference rewrite the next action? If the situation is fully established from the outset, A–S–A′ is not the most precise account.

Record what the figure perceives, how the body is affected, and what action follows; then ask whether that action alters the milieu and supplies usable cues for the next perception. At which link does the circuit break?

Large refers to the situation's encompassing and determining role, not spectacle, feature length, production scale, wide framing, or heroic stature. The test follows how the milieu bears upon bodies, how a duel concentrates forces, and whether action actually transforms S.

Small does not mean a minor character, low budget, short film, tight framing, or modest event. If an already totalized situation governs the characters, the structure may remain large form. The evidence for small form is an action functioning as an index from which character and viewer infer the situation.

Review every registered scene from this film and check sound, action, time, and sources separately.

Return the film claim to the argumentative sequence and edition coordinates of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2.

Compare the evidence levels of primary text, shot facts, scholarship, and atlas inference.