How I Filmed The War A Record Of The Extraordinary Experiences

I Reach the First Line Belgian Trenches--And become a Belgian Soldier for the Time Being--A Night Attack--An Adventure whilst Filming a Mitrailleuse Outpost--Among the Ruins of...

A Morning of Surprises--The German Positions Bombarded from the Sea--Filming the Goumiers in Action--How these Tenacious Fighters Prepare for Battle--Goumier Habits and Customs-...

A Dangerous Adventure and What Came of It--A Race Across the Sand-dunes--And a Spill in a Shell-hole--The Fate of a Spy--A Battle in the Dunes--Of which I Secured Some Fine Film...

In a Trench Coat and Cap I again Run the Gauntlet--A Near Squeak--Looking for Trouble--I Nearly Find It--A Rough Ride and a Mud Bath--An Affair of Outposts--I Get Used to Crawli...

I Start for the Vosges--Am Arrested on the Swiss Frontier--And Released--But Arrested Again--And then Allowed to Go My Way--Filming in the Firing Zone--A Wonderful French Charge...

I am Appointed an Official War Office Kinematographer--And Start for the Front Line Trenches--Filming the German Guns in Action--With the Canadians--Picturesque Hut Settlement A...

Leave-taking at Charing Cross--A Fruitless Search for Food on Christmas Eve--How Tommy Welcomed the Coming of the Festive Season--"Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men" to the Boom...

Boxing Day--But No Pantomime--Life in the Trenches--A Sniper at Work--Sinking a Mine Shaft--The Cheery Influence of an Irish Padre--A Cemetery Behind the Lines--Pathetic Inscrip...

A Visit to the Old German Trenches--Reveals a Scene of Horror that Defies Description--Dodging the Shells--I Lose the Handle of My Camera--And then Lose My Man--The Effect of Sh...

How I Made a "Hide-up"--And Secured a Fine Picture of the Prince Inspecting some Gun-pits--His Anxiety to Avoid the Camera--And His Subsequent Remarks--How a German Block-house...

Greeted on Arrival in the Ruined City of Ypres by a Furious Fusillade--I Film the Cloth Hall and Cathedral, and Have a Narrow Escape--A Once Beautiful Town Now Little More Than...

Filming Within Forty-five Yards of the German Trenches--Watching for "Minnies"--Officers' Quarters--"Something" Begins to Happen--An Early Morning Bombardment--Develops Into the...

A Very Lively Experience--Choosing a Position for the Camera Under Fire--I Get a Taste of Gas--Witness a Night Attack by the Germans--Surprise an Officer by My Appearance in the...

The First Kinematograph Film Taken of the Western Front--And How I Took It Whilst Travelling Through the Air at Eighty Miles an Hour--Under Shell-fire--Over Ypres--A Thrilling E...

Chasing an "Enemy" Aeroplane at a Height of 13,500 Feet--And What Came of It--A Dramatic Adventure in which the Pilot Played a Big Part--I Get a Nasty Shock--But am Reassured--A...

The Threshold of Tremendous Happenings--General ----'s Speech to His Men on the Eve of Battle--Choosing My Position for Filming the "Big Push"--Under Shell-fire--A Race of Shrie...

The General's Speech to the Fusiliers Before Going Into Action--Filming the 15-inch Howitzers--A Miniature Earthquake--"The Day" is Postponed--Keeping Within "The Limits"--A Sur...

A Firework Display Heralds the Arrival of "The Day"--How the Boys Spent Their Last Few Hours in the Trenches--Rats as Bedfellows--I Make an Early Start--And Get Through a Mine-s...

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,...

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 Whils...

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...

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...

Looking for "Thrills"--And How I Got Them--I Pass Through "Sausage Valley," on the Way to Pozières--You _May_ and you _Might_--What a Tommy Found in a German Dug-out--How Fritz...

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 Outs...

An Historic Gathering--In which King and President, Joffre and Haig Take Part--His Majesty and the Little French Girl--I Am Permitted to Film the King and His Distinguished Gues...

Something in the Wind--An Urgent Message to Report at Headquarters--And What Came Of It--I Hear for the First Time of the "Hush! Hush!"--And Try to Discover What It Is--A Wonder...

A Weird-looking Object Makes Its First Appearance Upon the Battlefield--And Surprises Us Almost as Much as It Surprised Fritz--A Death-dealing Monster that Did the Most Marvello...

An Awful Specimen of War Devastation--Preparing for an Advance--Giving the Bosche "Jumps"--Breakfast Under Fire--My Camera Fails Me Just Before the Opening of the Attack--But I...

A Choppy Cross-Channel Trip--I Indulge in a Reverie--And Try to Peer Into the Future--At Headquarters Again--Trying to Cross the River Somme on an Improvised Raft--In Peronne Af...

Exploring the Unknown--A Silence That Could be Felt--In the Village of Villers-Carbonel--A Cat and Its Kittens in an Odd Retreat--Brooks' Penchant for "Souvenirs"--The First Tro...

The Enemy Destroy Everything as They Go--Clearing Away the Débris of the Battlefield--And Repairing the Damage Done by the Huns--An Enormous Mine Crater--A Reception by French P...

Possibilities--Food for Famished Villagers--Meeting the Mayoress of Bovincourt--Who Presides at a Wonderful Impromptu Ceremony--A Scrap Outside Vraignes--A Church Full of Refuge...

Fate has not been unkind to me. I have had my chances, particularly during the last two or three years, and--well, I have done my best to make the most of what has come my way....

I Reach the First Line Belgian Trenches--And become a Belgian Soldier for the Time Being--A Night Attack--An Adventure whilst Filming a Mitrailleuse Outpost--Among the Ruins of...

A Morning of Surprises--The German Positions Bombarded from the Sea--Filming the Goumiers in Action--How these Tenacious Fighters Prepare for Battle--Goumier Habits and Customs-...

A Dangerous Adventure and What Came of It--A Race Across the Sand-dunes--And a Spill in a Shell-Hole--The Fate of a Spy--A Battle in the Dunes--Of which I Secured Some Fine Film...

In a Trench Coat and Cap I again Run the Gauntlet--A Near Squeak--Looking for Trouble--I Nearly Find It--A Rough Ride and a Mud Bath--An Affair of Outposts--I Get Used to Crawli...

I Start for the Vosges--Am Arrested on the Swiss Frontier--And Released--But Arrested Again--And then Allowed to Go My Way--Filming in the Firing Zone--A Wonderful French Charge...

I am Appointed an Official War Office Kinematographer--And Start for the Front Line Trenches--Filming the German Guns in Action--With the Canadians--Picturesque Hut Settlement A...

Leave-taking at Charing Cross--A Fruitless Search for Food on Christmas Eve--How Tommy Welcomed the Coming of the Festive Season--"Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men" to the Boom...

Boxing Day--But No Pantomime--Life in the Trenches--A Sniper at Work--Sinking a Mine Shaft--The Cheery Influence of an Irish Padre--A Cemetery Behind the Lines--Pathetic Inscrip...

A Visit to the Old German Trenches--Reveals a Scene of Horror that Defies Description--Dodging the Shells--I Lose the Handle of My Camera--And then Lose My Man--The Effect of Sh...

How I Made a "Hide-up"--And Secured a Fine Picture of the Prince Inspecting some Gun-pits--His Anxiety to Avoid the Camera--And His Subsequent Remarks--How a German Block-house...

Greeted on Arrival in the Ruined City of Ypres by a Furious Fusillade--I Film the Cloth Hall and Cathedral, and Have a Narrow Escape--A Once Beautiful Town Now Little More Than...

Filming Within Forty-five Yards of the German Trenches--Watching for "Minnies"--Officers' Quarters--"Something" Begins to Happen--An Early Morning Bombardment--Develops Into the...

A Very Lively Experience--Choosing a Position for the Camera Under Fire--I Get a Taste of Gas--Witness a Night Attack by the Germans--Surprise an Officer by My Appearance in the...

The First Kinematograph Film Taken of the Western Front--And How I Took It Whilst Travelling Through the Air at Eighty Miles an Hour--Under Shell-fire--Over Ypres--A Thrilling E...

Chasing an "Enemy" Aeroplane at a Height of 13,500 Feet--And What Came of It--A Dramatic Adventure in which the Pilot Played a Big Part--I Get a Nasty Shock--But am Reassured--A...

The Threshold of Tremendous Happenings--General ----'s Speech to His Men on the Eve of Battle--Choosing My Position for Filming the "Big Push"--Under Shell-fire--A Race of Shrie...

The General's Speech to the Fusiliers Before Going Into Action--Filming the 15-inch Howitzers--A Miniature Earthquake--"The Day" is Postponed--Keeping Within "The Limits"--A Sur...

A Firework Display Heralds the Arrival of "The Day"--How the Boys Spent Their Last Few Hours in the Trenches--Rats as Bedfellows--I Make an Early Start--And Get Through a Mine-s...

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,...

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 Whils...

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...

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...

Looking for "Thrills"--And How I Got Them--I Pass Through "Sausage Valley," on the Way to Pozières--You _May_ and you _Might_--What a Tommy Found in a German Dug-out--How Fritz...

His Majesty's Arrival at Boulogne--At G.H.Q.--General ----'s Appreciation--The King on the Battlefield of Fricourt--Within Range of the Enemy's Guns--His Majesty's Joke Outside...

An Historic Gathering--In which King and President, Joffre and Haig Take Part--His Majesty and the Little French Girl--I Am Permitted to Film the King and His Distinguished Gues...

Something in the Wind--An Urgent Message to Report at Headquarters--And What Came Of It--I Hear for the First Time of the "Hush! Hush!"--And Try to Discover What It Is--A Wonder...

A Weird-looking Object Makes Its First Appearance Upon the Battlefield--And Surprises Us Almost as Much as It Surprised Fritz--A Death-dealing Monster that Did the Most Marvello...

An Awful Specimen of War Devastation--Preparing for an Advance--Giving the Bosche "Jumps"--Breakfast Under Fire--My Camera Fails Me Just Before the Opening of the Attack--But I...

After our successful attack and capture of Lesboeufs and Morval on September 25th, 1916, beyond consolidating our gains there was comparatively little done in the way of big off...

A Choppy Cross-Channel Trip--I Indulge in a Reverie--And Try to Peer Into the Future--At Headquarters Again--Trying to Cross the River Somme on an Improvised Raft--In Peronne Af...

Exploring the Unknown--A Silence That Could be Felt--In the Village of Villers-Carbonel--A Cat and Its Kittens in an Odd Retreat--Brooks' Penchant for "Souvenirs"--The First Tro...

The Enemy Destroy Everything as They Go--Clearing Away the Débris of the Battlefield--And Repairing the Damage Done by the Huns--An Enormous Mine Crater--A Reception by French P...

To keep hard upon the heels of the retreating Germans and so obtain scenes, the character of which had never been presented before to the British public, was my chief aim. I had...

Still the great German retreat continued. Village after village fell into our hands; mile after mile the enemy was relentlessly pursued by our cavalry and cyclist corps. Still t...