AND THE HOUR

A Mighty Convulsion Signalises the Commencement of
Operations--Then Our Boys "Go Over the Top"--A Fine Film
Obtained whilst Shells Rained Around Me--My Apparatus is
Struck--But, Thank Goodness, the Camera is Safe--Arrival
of the Wounded--"Am I in the Picture?" they ask 162

CHAPTER XV

ROLL-CALL AFTER THE FIGHT

A Glorious Band of Wounded Heroes Stagger Into Line and
Answer the Call--I Visit a Stricken Friend in a
Dug-out--On the Way to La Boisselle I Get Lost in the
Trenches--And Whilst Filming Unexpectedly Come Upon the
German Line--I Have a Narrow Squeak of Being Crumped--But
Get Away Safely--And later Commandeer a Couple of German
Prisoners to Act as Porters 169

CHAPTER XVI

EDITING A BATTLE FILM

The Process Described in Detail--Developing the Negative--Its
Projection on the Screen--Cutting--Titling--Joining--Printing
the Positive--Building Up the Story--It is Submitted to the
Military Censors at General Headquarters--And After Being Cut
and Approved by Them--Is Ready for Public Exhibition 178

CHAPTER XVII

THE HORRORS OF TRONES WOOD

Three Times I Try and Fail to Reach this Stronghold of
the Dead--Which Has Been Described as "Hell on Earth"--At
a Dressing Station under Fire--Smoking Two Cigarettes at
a Time to Keep off the Flies--Some Amusing Trench
Conversations by Men who had Lost Their Way--I Turn in
for the Night--And Have a Dead Bosche for Company 183

CHAPTER XVIII

FILMING AT POZIERES AND CONTALMAISON

Looking for "Thrills"--And How I Got Them--I Pass Through
"Sausage Valley," on the Way to Pozieres--You _May_ and
you _Might_--What a Tommy Found in a German Dug-out--How
Fritz Got "Some of His Own" Back--Taking Pictures in What
Was Once Pozieres--"Proofs Ready To-morrow" 196

CHAPTER XIX

ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT WITH THE KING

His Majesty's Arrival at Boulogne--At G.H.Q.--General Burstall's
Appreciation--The King on the Battlefield of
Fricourt--Within Range of the Enemy's Guns--His Majesty's
Joke Outside a German Dug-out--His Memento from a Hero's
Grave--His Visit to a Casualty Clearing Station--The King
and the Puppy--Once in Disgrace--Now a Hospital Mascot 205

CHAPTER XX

KING AND PRESIDENT MEET

An Historic Gathering--In which King and President, Joffre and