: Re: What's the meaning of the running numbers in left margin of a movie script online? Currently, I am going through the script of The Battle of Algiers. On the left margin, there are numbers

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For this script at least, the numbers correspond to the scenes.

Each number in the left margin appears at the beginning of a new location. At a guess, this could simply be to make writing easier for the screenwriter, or perhaps to correspond to clapperboard information. These possible uses are only guesses, however.

As seen in @Reed 's comments, this is by no means an industry standard, but for the purposes of the specific script chosen in the question, the numbers in the left margin are so scene numbers.

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