The Magic Box


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LIVELY TUNE PLAYS

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-Good morning.

-Good morning.

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-Could I speak to Mrs Friese-Greene, please?

-Was it about a room?

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No. If she's not too busy, I'd like to see her.

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-I'll find out. What name is it?

-I'm her husband.

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Oh, well, I'm sure she'll...

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I'll go and see.

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-Would you wait there, please?

-Thank you.

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CLOCK CHIMES GENTLY

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Hello, Willie.

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Hello, Edith.

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-Are you feeling better?

-I hope you don't mind my coming to see you here.

-Of course not.

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You see, there's a reason.

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Let's sit down.

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-The children were asking after you, Willie.

-Were they? Bless them.

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-How's Vincent's cold?

-It's better now.

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I must send him something. There's a nice letter from Claude.

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-He is doing well, isn't he?

-Yes. Are you sure you're well enough to be out?

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You know what the doctor said.

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I'm perfectly all right. I've never felt better.

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Edith, I've got some news for you.

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News?

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Colour. There's no doubt about it this time. I've got it at last.

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-The colours are better than I ever got them before.

-That's wonderful.

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It's true, Edith. You'll see.

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I'm glad you're happy about it.

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I knew you would be. That's why I came.

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I wanted you to be the first to hear it.

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You know what it'll mean, my dear, don't you? We can be together again, a home of our own.

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Willie...

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It wouldn't work.

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We shall have all the money we need this time. This is the real thing.

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It's practically perfect. There's a fortune in this.

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Neither of us will ever have to work again. We shall be the idle rich.

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SHE LAUGHS

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You idle, Willie?

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You're very beautiful, my dear.

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Sorry to interrupt you, Edith. Would you check the luncheon menu? Chef's waiting.

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Yes.

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Sorry, Willie.

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That's all right, my dear.

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I've got rather a lot to do today myself.

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There's a big film industry meeting on this afternoon. I must be there.

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-Oughtn't you to rest instead of...?

-No, this is something I must go to.

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The film industry has grown so quickly. The people in it just don't realise how important it is.

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If they're not careful, they're going to spoil it all.

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Yes, of course.

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Well, goodbye, Willie.

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Goodbye.

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Give my love to the children.

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Yes, I will.

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-Good morning. Thank you very much.

-Not at all.

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What a charming man!

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I know.

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-You're still very fond of him, aren't you?

-Yes.

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Why don't you go back to him?

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Things are better left as they are.

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And I should mind my own business.

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There's nothing secret. Willie's not the sort of person who should have other people to worry about.

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He must have been very handsome.

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Yes, he was.

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Successful.

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At the time when I met him, I was working in a glove shop for 15 shillings a week.

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I wanted security.

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CHEERING

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Come on, there's something I want to show you.

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Look, this is it.

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Come and see the thrill of the century - pictures that move. Come and have the thrill of a lifetime.

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Admission - one penny. One copper coin.

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A train entering a station so real that it'll terrify you!

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BACKGROUND PIANO MUSIC

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SCREAMS

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-It's wonderful.

-Did your Mr Friese-Greene really invent it?

-Yeah, of course he did.

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-Lots of other things too. You'd be amazed at all the patents he's got. He's a grand chap.

-Is he married?

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-He was. She died two years ago.

-It must be very exciting to work for someone like that.

-It is.

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-Would you like to see the laboratory? I've got a key.

-It's too late.

-No, it isn't. Come on, we'll get a bus.

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-Are you sure it's all right?

-Yes, of course it is. Only, don't talk too loud. This way.

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We have electric light in the lab. We need the current for our experiments.

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Mind the steps. I'll put on the light.

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Turn that light out!

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Oh...

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Turn it on again.

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Hello, Jack.

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I'm terribly sorry, sir. I had no idea you were still here.

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-I just wanted to show someone the laboratory.

-Oh, that's all right.

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Someone?

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Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. My fiancee Miss Jones and Miss Harrison.

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-How do you do?

-How do you do?

-How do you do? Please come in.

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-We're very sorry to intrude upon you like this.

-We thought you'd be in bed.

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Oh! No, no, you're not intruding. I'm very glad of an excuse to stop.

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-Besides, this is Jack's laboratory just as much as it is mine, isn't it?

-Oh...

-Yes, of course it is.

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-We work together very closely.

-What were you doing in the dark?

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-We're trying to design something to produce X-rays that doctors can use.

-X-rays?

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Hmm. Tell them about it, Jack. He's so much better at explaining things than I am.

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-Well, sir...

-And the press. Don't forget the press. Show them everything.

-Yes, sir.

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Well, er... There's the press.

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Well, that's it.

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-What does it do?

-It prints without using ink.

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-Oh.

-Electrochemically.

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What's this box?

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-Don't touch that, please!

-No, you mustn't touch that. May, come and look at the X-rays.

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I'm sorry, I'm sure!

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What is this?

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A souvenir. It doesn't look much, but I wouldn't part with this for anything in the world.

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-It's my first moving picture camera.

-You've done so many things.

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-When I was making this, I was single-minded. It was the only thing that mattered.

-Isn't it any more?

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I wanted to capture movement because movement is part of the beauty of things.

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-Didn't it come right?

-Yes, it came all right in a way.

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But you see, I lost someone.

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And I suppose I lost interest.

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In the beauty of things?

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Possibly.

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No, it wasn't that. Of course it wasn't that.

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I think that's something no-one quite loses.

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Don't you?

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'The following day, he came into the shop where I worked to buy some gloves.

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'And he came in the day after that,

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'and yet again two days later.'

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Three pairs in four days. He's fond of gloves, isn't he, dear?

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INAUDIBLE

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-A glass of port?

-No, thank you.

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-That was a lovely dinner.

-Good. Will you dine with me again?

-Yes, Mr Friese-Greene, I'd like to.

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-People call me Willie. Funny sound, isn't it?

-Mr William Friese-Greene is very imposing.

-That was the idea.

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When I was a photographer, you had to impress the sitters. Willie Green wasn't enough.

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I tacked my wife's name on to it and I put an E on to the Green just to make it balanced.

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Do you know, when you came into the laboratory the other night,

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I had the most discourteous idea about you.

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I can imagine. We interrupted your work.

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Oh, no, not that. I thought you were lonely.

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That isn't discourteous.

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Of someone young and attractive? Of course it is.

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It was clever of you to see it.

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That must be because you know about loneliness yourself.

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Yes, that must be it.

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-Your bill, sir.

-Thank you.

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'Three months later, we were married

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'and at first, everything was perfect.

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'You couldn't have found a happier married couple anywhere in the world.

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'Willie's inventions brought in money and everything seemed secure.'

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ENGINE BACKFIRES

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'We bought a new house at Dovercourt and it was there that Claude, our first son, was born.

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'Soon after, Willie began working on colour film. He spent all his time on those colour experiments.

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'They became an obsession with him.

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'Everything we had went into those experiments and a great deal we didn't have.

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'As the family increased, we began to have money troubles, but Willie was single-minded.

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'He had this mission in life.

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'He lived in a world of lenses and arc lights and filters.

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'And those, I found out, are very expensive things.

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'We went bankrupt twice and had to take a smaller house in Brighton,

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'but it was the same story there - debts all the time.

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'We seemed to owe money to everyone,

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'but Willie's colour experiments still went on.

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'Not that I really minded. You see, we loved one another.

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'I believed in what he was trying to do. In fact, I think I would have gone on with Willie for ever.

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'Only, one day... It was soon after King Edward died.

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'One day, something happened.'

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Tea, Willie!

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-Shall I turn on the other lights?

-No, thank you, Kenneth. We can manage with these.

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-Hello, boys.

-ALL: Good afternoon, Father.

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-God bless this food which now we take and make us good for Jesus' sake.

-Amen.

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Ah! Maurice...

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-Amen.

-ALL: Amen.

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There you are, Maurice, all alive and kicking.

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-Ants' eggs, fit as fleas now.

-Put them on the floor until you've had your tea.

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Mother, our christening mugs have gone again.

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-Yes, Kenneth.

-Have we lent them to Father's friend again?

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Have we, dear?

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Hmm? Oh, yes. An uncle of mine is very kindly looking after them for us.

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Oh, I nearly forgot. Look, what do you think of this?

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-What about that?

-I say!

-Look at that sage green. That's a difficult colour to get.

-This one's pink.

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Let me see. So it is.

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-Mine's a beauty. Lovely.

-It's those new filters. I must buy some more.

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-Now get on with your tea, boys.

-Yes, come along. Give them back.

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-Mother?

-Father, when can we have the money for our new railway season tickets? You said to remind you.

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-So I did. Let me think.

-When do they run out, Claude?

-They ran out two weeks ago.

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-How have you been going?

-At this end, they never look at our tickets.

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-At the other end, we get out before the train gets into the station.

-While the train's moving?

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It's quite safe, dear. I had a good look myself.

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The train slows down almost to a standstill on the bend.

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-There's practically no risk at all. I did it myself.

-You did what?

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-I don't see why we need tickets at all.

-No, that would be cheating the railway company.

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As soon as I get a cheque, the tickets will be renewed and backdated. Yes.

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-Where's Graham?

-He's not in yet. Now, Willie!

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-Perhaps the ticket collector's caught him.

-Quiet, Kenneth!

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-Until they get their new tickets, I think they ought to walk to school.

-Do you? Perhaps.

-Oh, Father!

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-BELL RINGS

-That's Graham now. Kenneth, open the door. He's very late. Very late.

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I must talk to that young man. Is that you, Graham?

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Hello. You're late. I say, what's up? What's the matter? Good Lord, look at your face!

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Look at your clothes!

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Graham, what's happened?

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No, dear, let me. Go back to your tea, Kenneth.

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Go back to your tea, boys.

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Was it a fight?

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Yes, Father.

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Did you win?

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No, Father.

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I expect you will next time.

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Now, what about coming downstairs and having some tea?

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I'm not very hungry...

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thank you, Father.

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What was it all about?

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HE STARTS SOBBING

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Graham...

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Well, well, there now...

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They have knocked you about!

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Here...

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Come over here and sit down. You're tired out.

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It's not as bad as all that, is it?

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Tell me all about it.

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He... He said you were a liar and a thief.

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Oh, did he?

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-Yes.

-Did he give any reason?

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Yesterday, we were talking about moving pictures and I said you invented them.

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Yes.

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Well, this morning, he said he looked it up at home in an encyclopedia.

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It said that Edison invented them.

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You weren't mentioned at all.

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And then he said that...

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his father said that you owed everybody money and never paid.

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And that made you a thief as well.

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Oh.

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You did invent the moving pictures, didn't you, Father?

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Yes, I think I did.

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I wasn't the only one, but I think I was the first.

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Mine was the first patent, anyway.

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There was a Frenchman called Le Prince a year or so before me

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who produced a camera working on a different principle to mine,

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but it's not like the one they use today and the one I invented is.

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And in that sense, I was the first.

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But the encyclopedia...

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He said it didn't even mention your name.

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Well...

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Perhaps it isn't a very good encyclopedia.

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That's what I said.

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We do owe people money. Don't we, Father?

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Yes.

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I'm afraid we do.

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But owing money isn't the same as being a thief.

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Is it?

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No. Not really.

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Well...

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Your face needs washing again, old chap.

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You'd better tidy up a bit and come down and have your tea.

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Ask Mother if there's a piece of cake.

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All right, Father.

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-Father...

-Yes?

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He was much bigger than I am

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or I would have beaten him.

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I know you would. Thank you, Graham.

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Did you hear?

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Yes, darling.

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But you mustn't take any notice.

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I think I'll go for a walk.

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LAUGHTER Oh, give me that back, Claude!

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No, I'm keeping it.

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They could have mentioned my name, couldn't they? They could just have mentioned my name.

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It wouldn't have hurt anybody.

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'That night, I realised something that perhaps I had known for quite a long time,

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'that although Willie might work as usual

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'and make plans for the day when everything was going to be successful,

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'that day was never going to come.

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'We weren't going to be successful. We weren't going to be rich.

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'As a family, we'd be lucky if we survived.

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'It wasn't until 1915 that the inevitable happened.'

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WHISTLING: "It's A Long Way To Tipperary"

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-Mr Friese-Greene?

-I'm Mrs Friese-Greene. Can I help you?

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-I'm the broker's man. The landlord wants the rent.

-Today my husband's in London, but he'll be back later.

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-You're new, aren't you?

-Yes, just helping out.

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Your regular man's got the Spanish influenza. Very nasty thing, I'm told.

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I like to save all the fuss I can. Makes things pleasanter all round.

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You know the legal position. The landlord can seize goods to the value of the rent owing.

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The law protects you too. Certain goods can't be seized - wearing apparel, bedding, ordinary fixtures.

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If you had any crops growing in the garden ripe for picking, they wouldn't count.

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What a nice, big sunny room this is! Property belonging to the ambassador of a foreign power is exempt.

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We'll put it to the vote. Those in favour?

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Against? Carried unanimously. We'll do it right away.

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-Not you, Maurice. You're not old enough.

-I want to.

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-So do I.

-You can't. You two stop here and look after Mother.

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Let's take a peep upstairs, shall we? Pure formality, of course.

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-These are three of my sons.

-Really? Well behaved, I hope, ma'am. No practical jokes or funny business.

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-No, there's no need to worry.

-I'm glad of that. I've had some unpleasant experiences in my time.

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-Age?

-17.

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-I didn't get it, son.

-18.

-18.

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-And you?

-18.

-18.

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-And you're 18?

-Yes, sir.

-All right, left turn. Next!

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Age?

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-That's your lot.

-Don't we get uniforms?

-All in good time. Report at the barracks tomorrow at 10.30.

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Bring your shaving kit, soap, spare socks. Call me Sergeant. Got it?

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- Yes, Sergeant. - Yes, Sergeant.

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16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

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22 pounds and I have to give you five shillings for your fee. That's right, isn't it?

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-You know your way about. There's your receipt.

-Thank you.

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-I thank you for your courtesy. Good afternoon to you, sir.

-Goodbye.

-Good day, sir. Good day, ma'am.

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I won't say "au revoir".

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HE CHUCKLES

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Two pounds and eight shillings.

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That's all that's left. You'd better keep it, dear.

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Willie, where did you get this money?

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You didn't borrow again?

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My dear, I know nobody will lend me money any more.

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-Willie, please tell me.

-I sold something. It's not important.

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What did you sell?

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All right...

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It was the old camera.

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Oh, Willie!

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It's done now. Anyhow, all my stuff's colour nowadays. I'm finished with black and white.

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There, two pounds and eight shillings. There you are, my dear.

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-Call me Sergeant! Got it?

-Those boys are always playing soldiers!

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Left, right, left, right, left, right, halt!

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Left turn!

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Not now, boys.

0:25:210:25:23

Squad, present boots!

0:25:230:25:25

Oh, no.

0:25:310:25:33

Claude!

0:25:330:25:34

Oh, no!

0:25:360:25:38

Oh, no!

0:25:400:25:42

BRASS BAND PLAYS

0:25:480:25:51

MUSIC: "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit-Bag"

0:25:540:25:57

They'll send them back, won't they?

0:27:060:27:09

They must send them back when they know they're under age.

0:27:090:27:13

I must find their birth certificates. They're up here somewhere.

0:27:150:27:19

They had to grow up some time, dearest.

0:27:210:27:24

It's what they wanted to do.

0:27:240:27:27

It's not true.

0:27:280:27:30

-Darling...

-It's not true.

0:27:300:27:32

I made Kenneth tell me, but I knew it already.

0:27:340:27:38

They went because they didn't want to be a burden to us any longer,

0:27:390:27:43

-so that we wouldn't have to feed and clothe them.

-Oh, Edith!

0:27:430:27:47

It's the truth, Willie! And you'd have known it was the truth if you weren't so blind.

0:27:470:27:52

But you don't see other people.

0:27:520:27:54

You see colours, filters, little bits of machinery.

0:27:540:27:57

And that's the world for you.

0:27:570:27:59

What happens outside it is nothing.

0:28:000:28:03

Children who ask to be clothed and fed, greengrocers, landlords who want their money...

0:28:030:28:09

They're all the same to you. They're all creditors.

0:28:090:28:12

And all that matters is to keep them quiet, so that you can go on with your work.

0:28:120:28:17

That's not fair, Edith!

0:28:170:28:19

I don't care whether it's fair or not, Willie!

0:28:190:28:22

I've done with being fair.

0:28:240:28:27

-I've done!

-SHE SOBS

0:28:280:28:30

Soon after that, I got a job and I took a place for the children and myself.

0:28:360:28:42

I knew that I had to leave him because he couldn't take the responsibility of us any longer.

0:28:420:28:48

Won't you ever go back to him?

0:28:480:28:50

-You see, I know the truth about Willie and me now.

-The truth?

0:28:520:28:56

Look at the paper. There on the City page.

0:28:560:28:58

This big film meeting that he talked about. You heard what he said - he has to be there.

0:28:580:29:04

He doesn't have to be there. It doesn't matter if he's there or not.

0:29:040:29:08

Nobody knows him any more.

0:29:080:29:10

At least, nobody that matters.

0:29:100:29:12

Nobody cares for his opinion.

0:29:130:29:16

What Willie Greene thinks hasn't mattered for years.

0:29:160:29:19

But he doesn't know that.

0:29:190:29:21

He thinks he still belongs.

0:29:210:29:24

I think the truth is that when I first met him, his real life was already over.

0:29:260:29:31

I never knew the real Willie.

0:29:330:29:35

He was before my time.

0:29:370:29:39

I, um... I wish to impress upon you strongly

0:29:390:29:44

that there has been no behind-the-scenes attempt

0:29:440:29:49

to prejudice the results of our deliberations here today.

0:29:490:29:53

Now, the, um...the reason that we're met here today is so that the, uh...the cinema owners

0:29:530:30:00

and the people who rent and produce films can work out and agree a common policy

0:30:000:30:05

for the film industry as a whole.

0:30:050:30:07

Lord Beaverbrook, we're in the hands of foreigners. British screens must be used for British films.

0:30:070:30:12

Mr Chairman, nobody is more patriotic than I am, but our cinemas can't run without foreign films.

0:30:120:30:18

SHOUTING Sit down!

0:30:180:30:20

Mr Chairman, we're in this business to make money, not lose it. And don't you forget it!

0:30:200:30:26

It's going to end in a riot. You'll see.

0:30:260:30:28

Order!

0:30:280:30:30

Gentlemen, I propose that we forget the past.

0:30:300:30:34

If we forget the past, we shall perhaps be able to persuade some of these angry gentlemen

0:30:340:30:40

that the committee is not a bunch of crooks...

0:30:400:30:43

'Forget the past. Forget the past.

0:30:430:30:45

'Forget the past. Forget the past. Forget the past.

0:30:450:30:50

'Forget the past. Forget the past.

0:30:500:30:53

'Forget the past. Forget the past. Forget the past.

0:30:530:30:57

'Forget the past. Forget the past.

0:30:570:31:00

'Forget the past. Forget the past. Forget the past. Forget the past...'

0:31:000:31:05

One, two.

0:31:050:31:07

Three, four.

0:31:070:31:10

Good.

0:31:100:31:12

Six.

0:31:120:31:13

Perfectly...still...please.

0:31:130:31:17

Ten, eleven.

0:31:170:31:19

Twelve, thirteen.

0:31:190:31:22

Fourteen, fifteen.

0:31:220:31:25

Sixteen. Steady.

0:31:250:31:27

Eighteen, nineteen.

0:31:270:31:30

Twenty. Steady.

0:31:300:31:33

Twenty-two. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

0:31:330:31:37

-KNOCK AT DOOR Hurry up, hurry up!

-Just a moment, sir.

0:31:430:31:47

-Now, is it finished?

-I've only just put it in.

-All right, all right.

0:31:570:32:01

Hmm. Uh-huh.

0:32:010:32:03

Yes, I'm a good photographer, the best in Bristol.

0:32:030:32:07

They all look terribly stiff, though, don't they, sir?

0:32:070:32:10

In Germany, they're working on a photographic plate with an exposure of less than one second.

0:32:100:32:16

-One second! What would Fox Talbot say to that?

-Fox Talbot!

0:32:160:32:19

Why not send for some of this stuff, Mr Guttenberg, and see if it works?

0:32:190:32:23

If it does, people wouldn't have to keep so still. They could move.

0:32:230:32:27

If they move, they blur. What is this nonsense that you speak?

0:32:270:32:31

-I didn't mean...

-Don't waste my time. There's the broom. Sweep up the darkroom floor.

-Yes, Mr Guttenberg.

0:32:310:32:37

RINGS

0:32:390:32:41

-Good morning, my lady.

-Mr Guttenberg, did you take that photograph?

0:32:430:32:48

-My lady?

-Look at it, man, look at it!

0:32:480:32:50

This is your own work. Now then...

0:32:500:32:53

-No, no, no, my lady.

-What's that?

-That is not my work, my lady.

0:32:530:32:57

What nonsense! My daughter told me distinctly. This is her friend, Miss Helena Friese.

0:32:570:33:02

This is where the photograph was taken. It's excellent and I want my daughter photographed the same way.

0:33:020:33:08

My lady, I will take the photograph of your daughter, but this is not by me. I would have my name on it.

0:33:080:33:13

-Miss Friese told my daughter.

-The composition is not such as I use.

0:33:130:33:17

Miss Friese told my daughter that she came here. I am not accustomed to having my word questioned.

0:33:170:33:23

I assure you, my lady...

0:33:230:33:25

Mr Guttenberg, what is this nonsense? Look!

0:33:300:33:34

That is the very background.

0:33:340:33:36

Ah, yes...

0:33:370:33:39

I think I understand.

0:33:420:33:44

Willie!

0:33:450:33:47

Willie!

0:33:490:33:51

Willie!

0:33:530:33:54

Yes, Mr Guttenberg?

0:33:540:33:56

-You permit, my lady?

-What is the matter with you?

0:33:570:34:01

You took this?

0:34:020:34:04

Yes, Mr Guttenberg, I think I did.

0:34:060:34:08

I see. My lady, I apologise. This photograph was taken in my studios.

0:34:080:34:13

-That's what I said.

-Sometimes my assistant takes unimportant sitters, children, domestic servants.

0:34:130:34:19

Miss Friese is neither a child nor a domestic servant. She is a friend of my daughter's from Switzerland.

0:34:190:34:25

-My lady, I did not mean...

-I'm not interested in what you meant.

0:34:250:34:29

If this young man took this portrait, then he shall photograph my daughter.

0:34:290:34:34

She will be here for a sitting on Tuesday at three o'clock. Kindly see that everything is ready for her.

0:34:340:34:40

-Allow me.

-Thank you.

0:34:410:34:43

If you make a good likeness, young man, I shall require you to photograph me.

0:34:460:34:51

Good morning.

0:34:510:34:54

Come here!

0:35:020:35:03

Well?

0:35:120:35:14

-Well, Mr Guttenberg...

-Silence!

-Yes, Mr Guttenberg.

0:35:140:35:17

This young Swiss lady, she's a friend of yours, eh?

0:35:180:35:22

Yes.

0:35:230:35:25

That's very nice.

0:35:250:35:27

She is pretty, you think?

0:35:280:35:30

Oh, yes, she is. But she's very delicate. She's been ill a lot.

0:35:300:35:34

Her mother died and she's living over here with relatives now.

0:35:340:35:38

You hope perhaps some day to marry her?

0:35:380:35:41

Well...

0:35:410:35:43

If you do not wish to beg your bread in the gutter, you will obey me when I speak!

0:35:450:35:50

You'll take no more photos in these studios that I do not order you to take!

0:35:500:35:55

I am the photographer here and if you will not obey me, you will go.

0:35:550:36:00

You understand? Speak!

0:36:000:36:03

Yes, Mr Guttenberg.

0:36:040:36:06

Helena!

0:36:100:36:12

Willie!

0:36:130:36:15

-Hello.

-Hello.

0:36:170:36:19

-Mrs Joster says you're better today.

-Oh, yes. I'll soon be very strong.

-Good.

0:36:190:36:24

-What have you got there?

-You look absolutely perfect like that.

0:36:240:36:28

I'd like to photograph you just as you are now on this wicker couch.

0:36:280:36:32

-Oh, Willie, you can't take the couch to the studio.

-No, I can't take you any more either.

0:36:320:36:37

-Lady Pond came to see Mr Guttenberg and showed him that photograph I took of you.

-Willie, I am sorry.

0:36:370:36:43

Was he very angry?

0:36:430:36:45

He was a bit upset. Do you know, Helena, sometimes I almost think he must be jealous.

0:36:450:36:51

Why do you smile?

0:36:540:36:56

Oh, Willie, it's so like you. It's obvious to everyone.

0:36:560:37:00

-What do you mean?

-That you are a better photographer than Mr Guttenberg and he knows it.

0:37:000:37:05

Do you really think that?

0:37:060:37:09

Oh, this is for you.

0:37:130:37:16

-Thank you, Willie. And the other one?

-That's just a German book on lenses.

0:37:160:37:20

-I wondered if you'd translate some of it for me?

-Of course, but I have something for you too.

0:37:200:37:26

-Thank you very...

-Look.

0:37:260:37:28

"The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine."

0:37:280:37:31

That must be very interesting. Thank you.

0:37:310:37:34

Oh, no, not to read. Look, someone has made little drawings in it.

0:37:340:37:38

Look.

0:37:380:37:40

By Jove!

0:37:410:37:43

Do that again.

0:37:430:37:46

-Isn't that wonderful?

-I thought it might interest you.

-This is much more than interesting.

0:37:490:37:54

This demonstrates the most amazing principle - persistence of vision.

0:37:540:37:58

-Is it new?

-No, it's as old as the hills. The Romans knew about this.

0:37:580:38:02

When you see those pictures apparently moving,

0:38:020:38:05

the nerves at the back of the eye, the retina, are flashing each picture into the brain.

0:38:050:38:10

But the brain retains each picture a fraction of a second after it's flicked past the eye,

0:38:100:38:15

so if you remove one picture, the brain still has an image of it a fraction of a second later.

0:38:150:38:20

-If you replace it with a slightly different picture, it will seem like the same one moving. Simple?

-Yes.

0:38:200:38:26

If it's ever possible to make a camera to photograph movement, this is the principle that will be used.

0:38:260:38:32

-Willie...

-Hmm?

0:38:330:38:35

Why do you work for Mr Guttenberg?

0:38:350:38:38

Why?

0:38:380:38:40

Yes. Why?

0:38:400:38:41

You are an experimenter.

0:38:410:38:44

-Somebody who tries out new things.

-I've got to earn a living.

0:38:440:38:48

-Then why don't you open a studio yourself?

-Oh...

-No, Willie, I'm serious.

0:38:480:38:53

-And annoy old Guttenberg? That'd be wonderful.

-Why not?

-Money. I haven't got a farthing.

0:38:530:38:58

-There's the money your grandfather left.

-I don't think that'd be enough.

-Are you sure?

-I don't...

0:38:580:39:03

I don't know. I must think about that.

0:39:030:39:06

You are a wonderful photographer. All you need is a little courage.

0:39:060:39:10

You'd give me that, wouldn't you?

0:39:100:39:12

Do you know, I believe you're right!

0:39:130:39:16

But I shall have to choose the right moment.

0:39:160:39:19

Moments of importance choose themselves.

0:39:190:39:22

The sun's just touching your hair.

0:39:240:39:26

It's perfect.

0:39:260:39:28

-I don't want my picture taken!

-Come along, Victoria. Do be a good girl.

0:39:290:39:33

-Turn round, dear.

-I don't want my photograph taken!

0:39:330:39:37

Oh, now, come along, Victoria.

0:39:370:39:40

-Do turn round.

-But she'll be so disappointed. She wants to see the dickybird.

0:39:400:39:45

Yes, show her the dickybird.

0:39:450:39:48

That's the idea. Now, you hold her there gently but firmly. A little lower. That's the idea.

0:39:480:39:54

Now, quite comfy. Now, Nanny, are you comfy too?

0:39:540:39:58

There now, Nanny look at Victoria. Harry, look at me.

0:39:580:40:01

Now, where's the dickybird? Oh, he's fine. He's all ready to pop out.

0:40:010:40:05

He's very quick, so you must watch very carefully.

0:40:050:40:09

-Now then, quite happy, quite still...?

-One moment.

0:40:090:40:13

-Now.

-I said, "One moment!"

0:40:130:40:15

The girl holds her rag. We cannot have that rubbish in the picture.

0:40:150:40:19

-Most of it is not in the picture. I can paint it out.

-What is this nonsense?

-She won't pose without it.

0:40:190:40:25

With children, one has to be firm. Gentle, but firm. See!

0:40:250:40:29

Oh, no, please, Mr Gutten...

0:40:290:40:32

Now, little girl, give that to me.

0:40:330:40:35

-Give that to me.

-No, don't!

0:40:350:40:37

-SHE CRIES

-You beast!

0:40:400:40:43

Aagh!

0:40:430:40:44

Oh!

0:40:440:40:45

Oh, Harry, you come here! You are a bad boy!

0:40:450:40:49

SHOUTING AND CRYING

0:40:490:40:51

Victoria, let go! Harry, how dare you!

0:40:510:40:53

I don't know what's come over them. They're so good as a rule. Behave yourself, Harry.

0:40:530:40:58

Victoria, do stop crying. It's all right.

0:40:580:41:01

HARRY SCREAMS I think I'll have to take them home.

0:41:010:41:04

-Now come along.

-But the photograph... The photograph.

0:41:040:41:08

SCREAMING AND CRYING CONTINUES

0:41:080:41:10

Such children...

0:41:130:41:15

..should be beaten soundly

0:41:160:41:18

for wasting the time!

0:41:180:41:21

You are a clumsy fool now, aren't you?

0:41:280:41:31

You're stupid too. You're always talking about your experience,

0:41:310:41:35

but you haven't even realised yet that some people don't like being photographed.

0:41:350:41:40

-I will not be spoken to like this. I am the photographer here.

-No, you're a clumsy fool, Mr Guttenberg.

0:41:400:41:45

-And you're no photographer.

-How dare you speak to me like this! You are finished.

-I'm telling you the truth.

0:41:450:41:51

You're finished, finished!

0:41:510:41:54

You're wrong, Mr Guttenberg. I'm only just beginning.

0:41:540:41:57

BELLS RING

0:41:570:41:59

Your wife has a list of the things she needs. If the child is to be born here, call the midwife for tomorrow.

0:42:320:42:38

-Tell me this evening what you've decided, so I may make the necessary arrangements.

-I will, Doctor.

0:42:380:42:43

-Look after yourself too. Are there no relations or friends who might help?

-No, not here.

0:42:430:42:48

-Let me know what you've decided.

-Of course. Thank you, Doctor.

0:42:480:42:52

-Goodbye.

-Goodbye.

0:42:520:42:54

Oh, it's cold enough to snow!

0:42:540:42:57

-Not a very cheerful man, the doctor.

-No.

0:43:120:43:16

When the shop bell went, I thought it might be a customer.

0:43:160:43:21

There hasn't been a customer for two days.

0:43:210:43:23

I don't mind going into the infirmary.

0:43:270:43:30

-No, no.

-But if it's better for the baby?

-No.

0:43:300:43:33

I've seen inside that place.

0:43:330:43:35

-Is this the doctor's list?

-Yes.

0:43:360:43:38

Darling, I've got to go out now. I shan't be long. Will you be all right?

0:43:490:43:54

-Yes.

-Are you sure?

0:43:540:43:56

Yes.

0:43:560:43:58

Goodbye.

0:43:590:44:00

-Good afternoon.

-Hello, Mr Friese-Greene.

-How's the rheumatism?

0:44:430:44:47

Darling...

0:44:580:45:00

-Helena!

-Hmm?

0:45:000:45:02

-Look.

-What?

0:45:020:45:04

All the things the doctor ordered.

0:45:040:45:07

But Willie, how?

0:45:090:45:11

I went to see the bank manager. He said I was a steady young fellow and he gave me the key to the safe.

0:45:110:45:17

-Oh, Willie!

-I'm going to make you some hot milk right away.

0:45:170:45:20

DOORBELL RINGS

0:45:200:45:22

Good afternoon, madam.

0:45:290:45:31

-Good afternoon. I wish to have a photograph taken.

-Certainly, madam.

0:45:310:45:36

Let me see. What day would you care to make an appointment?

0:45:360:45:39

-I rather want it done today.

-Today?

-Yes.

0:45:390:45:42

I must have the finished portraits by tomorrow. I'm leaving for India to join my husband the day after.

0:45:420:45:48

-My sister wants a likeness of me as a keepsake.

-I see.

0:45:480:45:51

-If you're not able to do it, I shall go elsewhere.

-No, madam, I quite understand.

0:45:510:45:56

Would you kindly step into the studio? Thank you.

0:45:560:45:59

Would you care to sit down and tidy your hair?

0:46:000:46:03

May I take your cape?

0:46:030:46:05

Would you like me to remove my hat?

0:46:060:46:09

I don't think so. No, it makes the most charming frame for the face.

0:46:090:46:13

Excuse me one moment, please.

0:46:130:46:16

-Darling, a customer!

-Oh, Willie, how wonderful!

0:46:210:46:24

-But I've got no plates.

-What do you mean?

-Nothing. Don't worry.

0:46:240:46:28

-Thank you, Mr Friese-Greene. I can collect those photographs tomorrow morning?

-Certainly.

0:47:120:47:18

-I wonder if I might have your name and address just for the books?

-Of course.

0:47:180:47:22

-Mrs Stukely.

-Mrs Stukely...

-Yes.

0:47:220:47:26

The Copse.

0:47:260:47:28

-The Copse.

-Wells Road.

0:47:280:47:31

Wells Road?

0:47:310:47:33

-And I see that it's usual to leave a deposit.

-Just a professional custom. A guinea or something like that.

0:47:330:47:39

-A guinea?

-I never charge for the sitting, of course.

-No, of course.

0:47:390:47:43

-Well, then...

-Thank you very much, Mrs Stukely.

-First thing tomorrow morning?

-Yes. Good afternoon, madam.

0:47:430:47:49

Good afternoon.

0:47:490:47:51

KNOCK AT DOOR

0:48:110:48:13

-Hello. I was just closing up.

-Those plates, I want to redeem one box.

0:48:130:48:17

-But you've only just put them in.

-I've just had a customer. She paid. I've got enough for one box.

0:48:170:48:23

I can't split up the pledge like that. It means altering my book.

0:48:230:48:26

I thought those were all the plates you had. How did you do the job?

0:48:260:48:31

I just pretended to do it. When she comes back, I'll tell the lady I had an accident.

0:48:310:48:36

Then I'll take her properly. She'll get her photographs if you'll let me have one box. Please, just one box.

0:48:360:48:42

If you were half as good at getting customers as you are at getting round me, you wouldn't be in here at all.

0:48:420:48:48

-All right, give us the ticket.

-Thank you.

0:48:480:48:51

It's all right, darling. I've got the plates back! Darling...

0:49:040:49:08

Quick, get the doctor.

0:49:080:49:11

Anything I can do? No.

0:49:110:49:14

HORSE NEIGHS

0:49:200:49:22

BABY CRIES

0:50:130:50:15

CRYING CONTINUES

0:50:160:50:18

-Well, Mr Friese-Greene, you're a father.

-I know.

0:50:310:50:34

-Is Helena all right?

-She's had a bad time. You'll have to look after her. It's a girl.

-That's wonderful.

0:50:340:50:40

Some people always seem to want the first one to be a boy, but I always say that girls bring good fortune.

0:50:400:50:46

-Congratulations, Mr Friese-Greene.

-Thank you, Doctor, very much.

-I hope I'm right about the good fortune.

0:50:460:50:52

DOORBELL RINGS

0:50:520:50:56

Doctor, I think you are!

0:50:590:51:01

-Good morning.

-Mr Friese-Greene, I want my family photographed.

-Certainly, sir. All together?

0:51:010:51:07

-All together and separately. Eight photographs in all.

-We've decided to start a family Bible.

0:51:070:51:12

-Splendid. I know exactly how you feel, sir. I'm a family man myself. Will you step this way?

-Come on.

0:51:120:51:18

Hold it.

0:51:200:51:22

Quite still, all of you.

0:51:220:51:24

You have a very charming daughter, Mr Friese-Greene.

0:51:510:51:55

And I have a very clever husband.

0:51:550:51:57

# He's gone away! Oh, where is he? He's gone away! Oh, where is he?

0:52:090:52:13

# He's gone away! Oh, where is he?

0:52:130:52:15

# Oh, where is he? Oh, where is he...?

0:52:150:52:18

# No sign of him, no sign of him that I can see

0:52:200:52:24

# Oh, where is he?

0:52:240:52:26

-# Oh, where...

-Oh, where...

-Oh, where is he...?

0:52:260:52:30

PIANO MUSIC

0:52:300:52:32

# My true love has forsaken me

0:52:320:52:35

# Where can he be? Where can he be?

0:52:350:52:38

# Oh, whe-e-ere can he be?

0:52:380:52:42

# Tell us, tell us

0:52:440:52:46

# Where, oh, where is he?

0:52:460:52:49

# I know not, I know not Do... #

0:52:490:52:53

Early, Mr Friese-Greene. You came in a little too soon.

0:52:530:52:58

Only just a little, but it makes all the difference.

0:52:580:53:01

"Brum-da-dum, brum-da-dum, I know not..." Simple?

0:53:010:53:05

Couldn't be simpler. Let's try it again, shall we? Letter... Letter F.

0:53:050:53:10

# Tell us, tell us

0:53:110:53:13

# Where, oh, where is he?

0:53:130:53:17

# I know not, I know not

0:53:180:53:20

# Do not ask of me

0:53:200:53:24

# Sorry words we hear him speaking High and low we have been seeking

0:53:260:53:30

# Sorry words we hear him speaking High and low we have been seeking... #

0:53:300:53:34

THEY SING IN HARMONY

0:53:340:53:36

# High and low

0:53:360:53:38

# High and low

0:53:390:53:42

# Sorry words we hear him speaking... #

0:53:420:53:45

Ladies and gentlemen, I've just received a most important piece of news.

0:53:460:53:51

I have to tell you that for our performance of this great work,

0:53:510:53:55

no less a person than Sir Arthur Sullivan himself has consented to come down to Bath to conduct us.

0:53:550:54:01

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure you're aware of the signal honour that is being conferred upon us.

0:54:050:54:11

We must see that Bath does its best to rise to this momentous occasion.

0:54:110:54:15

As time is very short,

0:54:150:54:18

I suggest that Mrs Claire and Mrs Friese-Greene of the ladies' committee go at once

0:54:180:54:23

into the question of special dresses for this concert.

0:54:230:54:27

Is that agreeable?

0:54:270:54:29

The general committee will notify you in due course of the other arrangements.

0:54:290:54:34

Mr Friese-Greene, our only male soloist, watch Sir Arthur's baton...

0:54:340:54:39

LAUGHTER

0:54:390:54:41

That will be all.

0:54:410:54:43

-Well, well, well, Helena! It's up to the pair of us. We shall need your help, Mr Friese-Greene.

-Of course.

0:54:470:54:53

-We must talk about it this evening.

-You'll have to excuse me. I promised to look in on Rudge.

0:54:530:54:58

-Do you think you and Mrs Claire...?

-Willie, not tonight, surely!

0:54:580:55:02

-I did say I'd look in. We've got the new machine assembled.

-If I were you, I'd be jealous of Mr Rudge.

0:55:020:55:08

-Oh, I am. But don't be too late.

-No, no, I'll be home almost as soon as you are.

0:55:080:55:13

-Goodbye, love. Mrs Claire.

-Goodbye.

0:55:130:55:15

-Oh, it's so exciting, isn't it?

-It is.

0:55:150:55:18

You're right about that condenser lens, Willie. It does make a difference.

0:55:300:55:34

In fact, I think we might re-design the optical system completely.

0:55:340:55:39

-Isn't that going to be rather expensive?

-Yes, I dare say.

0:55:390:55:42

But I think we ought to try it.

0:55:420:55:44

-Glass of port, Willie?

-Yes, please.

0:55:470:55:50

By the way, I saw Fox Talbot today. He wants to meet you.

0:55:510:55:55

Fox Talbot?

0:55:560:55:58

Helena!

0:56:030:56:05

Helena!

0:56:050:56:07

-Helena...

-Oh, Willie, you just came in at the right time.

0:56:070:56:11

-Mrs Claire must go now and we can't decide on the colour for the sashes.

-For the concert.

0:56:110:56:16

-What colour are the dresses?

-White.

-Darling, should it be red or blue?

0:56:160:56:20

-Or do you think this is rather nice?

-Let me see.

0:56:200:56:23

-Well, forgive me. You could hardly do better than that with white, could you?

-Wine. Of course!

0:56:230:56:29

Helena, you have a brilliant husband and so artistic too. The wine it shall be.

0:56:290:56:34

-I must get back to Mr Claire. Goodbye, my dear.

-Allow me.

-Good night. I'll see you tomorrow.

-Yes.

0:56:340:56:39

-I'm so glad you're here to guide us. It's a tremendous responsibility on your wife and me.

-Yes, indeed.

0:56:390:56:45

-I'll see myself out.

-Are you quite sure?

-Yes.

-Good night, Mrs Claire.

0:56:450:56:49

-Wonderful news.

-Isn't it?

-No, not the concert. Rudge has some really big news.

0:56:490:56:54

He's going to stay with Fox Talbot and I'm invited over on the 20th.

0:56:540:56:58

Darling, Fox Talbot is the man who actually invented photography. Isn't it wonderful?

0:56:580:57:04

But Willie, the concert is on the 20th.

0:57:040:57:06

Oh... Oh, yes.

0:57:060:57:09

That'll be all right. Fox Talbot's place isn't very far out.

0:57:090:57:13

I'll hire a carriage to take me there and bring me back.

0:57:130:57:17

I'll be there in plenty of time for the concert. I'll go straight to the Assembly Rooms.

0:57:170:57:22

I'm actually going to meet Fox Talbot. I can't believe it.

0:57:220:57:25

MURMUR OF CONVERSATION

0:57:480:57:50

Mr Friese-Greene, sir.

0:57:500:57:52

CONVERSATION CONTINUES

0:57:520:57:54

-Yes, indeed.

-Ah, Willie!

0:58:040:58:06

-This is Mr Friese-Greene whom I spoke to you about, Fox Talbot.

-Oh, yes. How do you do?

0:58:060:58:12

I was just telling Rudge here how interesting I find this Phantoscope.

0:58:120:58:16

He tells me that quite a lot of the work on it was yours. It's very interesting.

0:58:160:58:21

Your problem is that the images, although presented in succession,

0:58:310:58:35

-are not presented separately in succession, so they blur.

-Yes.

0:58:350:58:39

That is because the divisions between the pictures pass

0:58:390:58:43

at the same speed as the pictures themselves.

0:58:430:58:46

-You want some sort of intermittent action.

-That's what Friese-Greene has been on to me about.

0:58:460:58:52

I'm going to the concert now, Maggie. Ethel is sound asleep. I don't think she will wake.

0:58:520:58:57

-Thank you, ma'am. The master will return before the concert?

-No, he will dress at the Assembly Rooms.

0:58:570:59:03

-You do look lovely. I hope everything goes all right.

-Yes, it will. Good night, Maggie.

0:59:030:59:08

What I've been thinking of is something that could pass in front of the lens, stop, be exposed,

0:59:080:59:13

-then go on to make way for another piece to be exposed.

-Paper perhaps.

0:59:130:59:17

-That's possible. People in London could help him.

-I tell Willie, for this work, he ought to be in London.

0:59:170:59:23

BUZZ OF CONVERSATION

0:59:230:59:25

She's wearing a very odd style, you see.

0:59:250:59:28

PLAYS INTRODUCTION

0:59:571:00:00

CHOIR STARTS SINGING

1:00:021:00:04

I see a face and it is alive. I photograph it and I have a likeness, but something has gone.

1:00:131:00:18

Human beings are not still. Their movements are part of them.

1:00:181:00:22

SOLOIST SINGS

1:00:221:00:24

CHOIR SINGS IN HARMONY

1:00:291:00:32

# Such cruel words this day profane

1:00:351:00:38

# Such cruel words this day profane

1:00:381:00:42

-# Watching...

-Watching

-And waiting...

-Waiting... #

1:00:421:00:45

SINGING IN HARMONY CONTINUES

1:00:451:00:48

# Such cruel words this day profane

1:00:551:00:59

# Such cruel words this day profane... #

1:00:591:01:02

PIANO INTERLUDE

1:01:031:01:05

# He's gone away! Oh, where is he? He's gone away! Oh, where is he?

1:01:051:01:10

# He's gone away! Oh, where is he? Oh, where is he? Oh, where is he?

1:01:101:01:14

# No sign of him that I can see

1:01:161:01:19

-# That I can see

-Oh, where is he?

1:01:191:01:21

-# Oh, where...

-Where is he? #

1:01:211:01:24

Your husband hasn't come. Who is going to do the solo?

1:01:241:01:28

# My true love has forsaken me

1:01:281:01:31

# Where can he be? Where can he be?

1:01:311:01:34

# Oh, whe-e-ere can he be?

1:01:341:01:38

-# Tell us!

-Tell us!

-Tell us!

-Tell us!

1:01:401:01:42

# Where, oh, where, oh, where is he?

1:01:421:01:46

# I know not, I know not

1:01:461:01:50

# Do not ask of me... #

1:01:501:01:53

WHISPERED MUTTERING

1:01:531:01:55

PIANO PLAYS

1:01:581:02:00

# Watching, waiting

1:02:021:02:05

# Sorry words we hear him speaking High and low we have been seeking... #

1:02:061:02:11

I want to make a camera that will photograph movement.

1:02:121:02:16

Oh, I'm so sorry. I've been talking too much.

1:02:181:02:22

No, no, no, most interesting, Mr Friese-Greene.

1:02:221:02:25

-You won't mind me giving you a word of advice?

-No, indeed, sir.

1:02:251:02:30

The original thinker, the innovator mustn't mind seeming a little foolish to his contemporaries.

1:02:301:02:36

-He must always look to his star.

-I understand.

1:02:361:02:40

In the end, he may still fail. That's unimportant.

1:02:401:02:43

If he's true to himself, he won't be too unhappy or embittered, even in failure,

1:02:431:02:48

and will still speak for what's good.

1:02:481:02:51

-You remember that, young man.

-Yes.

1:02:511:02:54

SOUND OF HOOVES APPROACHING

1:03:181:03:20

DOOR CLOSES

1:03:251:03:27

BELL RINGS

1:03:281:03:31

Helena!

1:03:361:03:38

-Darling!

-Willie...

-I've got so much to tell you and I don't know where to begin.

1:03:391:03:44

Sit down, keep calm and I'll try and tell you all about it. Now, where to begin, where?

1:03:441:03:50

The laboratory, absolutely amazing, as big as all these rooms in one with everything you could wish for.

1:03:501:03:56

-Must have cost thousands! And Fox Talbot, the man himself.

-Willie...

-I can't tell you how exciting it was.

1:03:561:04:02

We talked and talked. He was really interested in my ideas, the man who invented photography.

1:04:021:04:07

I was so proud. But one thing sticks out a mile.

1:04:071:04:10

Making pictures move will be a bigger job than ever I dreamed of.

1:04:101:04:14

There are problems I hadn't even thought of. We've got to get rid of glass. Glass plates are no good.

1:04:141:04:20

We must find something entirely different. We have to go to London.

1:04:201:04:24

Yes, London. You see, the instrument makers alone, the finest craftsmen on Earth.

1:04:241:04:29

-Do you realise I've never even been to the Photographic Society?

-Willie!

1:04:291:04:34

Darling, let me finish. I'll tell you how it can be done. I thought it all over in the cab.

1:04:341:04:39

You remember that chap Arthur Collings, the one who wanted me to go into partnership in London?

1:04:391:04:44

Only yesterday, isn't it strange, he wrote to me again - Collings.

1:04:441:04:48

Friese-Greene and Collings, London. Wouldn't it be wonderful? I'll put everything into this. Everything...

1:04:481:04:55

What's the time?

1:05:021:05:04

Oh, my dear!

1:05:061:05:08

Oh, my darling!

1:05:081:05:10

SOBBING Oh, Willie, you are detestable!

1:05:101:05:14

You promised to be there. Faithfully, you promised. I was so ashamed.

1:05:141:05:19

You think of nobody but yourself. The whole world can wait if you have other things to do!

1:05:191:05:25

As long as Willie Greene is happy, nothing matters.

1:05:251:05:28

You are a child, a stupid, clumsy child!

1:05:281:05:32

Darling!

1:05:361:05:38

Dearest, I know it's no use apologising, but I would like to try to explain.

1:06:071:06:12

You see, I just didn't think.

1:06:121:06:14

That sounds horribly selfish, I know, but it's the truth.

1:06:141:06:20

I know how it happened.

1:06:211:06:23

You see, I've never met men like that before.

1:06:231:06:26

Talking to them, all the problems in my mind that had seemed like blurred images before,

1:06:261:06:32

they suddenly stood out in sharp focus.

1:06:321:06:36

It was like coming out of a fog into the sunlight.

1:06:371:06:41

I suppose I just got carried away and I forgot everything.

1:06:421:06:46

I forgot the concert. That's how it was.

1:06:461:06:49

I forgot your new dress.

1:06:491:06:51

And I even...forgot you.

1:06:521:06:55

It will seem strange in London after here.

1:07:081:07:12

-Good morning, Miss Tagg.

-Good morning, Mr Friese-Greene.

-Where's Mr Collings?

-He's in Piccadilly.

1:07:411:07:47

-Harold's taking Colonel Parker now.

-Good. Good.

1:07:471:07:50

Oh, Mr Friese-Greene...

1:07:501:07:53

-Good morning, Harold.

-Good morning, Mr Friese-Greene.

-Good morning, Colonel.

-What's that?

1:07:531:07:59

Mr Friese-Greene, Mr Collings said to remind you not to forget

1:08:071:08:10

about tonight for you and Mrs Friese-Greene.

1:08:101:08:13

-Eight o'clock, evening dress.

-Isn't that lovely? These instrument makers...

-Mr Friese-Greene...

1:08:131:08:19

The idea behind this machine is that in this camera I'll build, instead of pulling the paper through,

1:08:191:08:24

I can perforate the edges with these punches and roll it through, then it shouldn't tear so easily.

1:08:241:08:30

-I think it'll work.

-Very clever. Mr Collings said not to forget about tonight.

-Tonight? I won't forget.

1:08:301:08:36

-Isn't it a lovely piece of work, Miss Tagg?

-Yes, it's wonderful.

1:08:361:08:40

A toast to Friese-Greene & Collings and the second year of our partnership.

1:08:421:08:47

-May it continue to prosper!

-I hope so.

1:08:471:08:50

-Ladies, we've got a little surprise for you.

-And what is it?

1:08:501:08:54

-We're going to open two new studios.

-That's grand!

1:08:541:08:57

-Willie, you didn't tell me.

-We wanted to keep it a surprise.

1:08:571:09:00

We only completed today, my love.

1:09:001:09:03

-How wonderful! Where are they going to be?

-Grosvenor Street and Sloane Street. Why? I'll tell you.

1:09:031:09:09

Mrs Willie, your husband is a very clever chap.

1:09:091:09:11

He comes to London hardly able to find his way from Leicester Square to Hyde Park Corner.

1:09:111:09:17

He's on his way to being the most fashionable photographer in London.

1:09:171:09:21

If it's going to be the thing to have Friese-Greene on your pictures, we'll make it easy.

1:09:211:09:26

-Expensive, but easy. We'll make a fortune.

-That's right.

-Willie can't be in four studios at once.

1:09:261:09:31

-He'll just do the important sitters, the titled ones. The rest, he'll supervise.

-Not all the time.

1:09:311:09:37

Don't forget my experimental work. That's part of the agreement too.

1:09:371:09:41

Of course. But you'll soon be making so much money, you won't be bothering with experiments.

1:09:411:09:46

-That's right, isn't it, Mrs Willie?

-That's right.

-Waiter, fill up the glasses. We'll order some dinner.

1:09:461:09:52

That's celluloid, Mr Friese-Greene.

1:09:541:09:57

I want this in very thin strips, about a 64th of an inch.

1:09:571:10:00

-We can't get it that thin.

-If you can't, I will. Let me have some of the stuff.

1:10:001:10:05

I had an appointment with Mr Friese-Greene at three o'clock. I've been waiting half an hour.

1:10:051:10:10

-This is most aggravating. Where is Mr Friese-Greene?

-Mr Collings, he must be at one of the other studios.

1:10:101:10:17

-Where is Mr Friese-Greene?

-I'm sorry, Mr Collings. I don't know.

1:10:171:10:20

-Where is Mr Friese-Greene?

-I haven't seen him, Mr Collings.

1:10:201:10:24

-You were told to find out where he was going.

-When I asked him, he only smiled.

1:10:241:10:29

-The Viscountess has been waiting for 25 minutes. Try Piccadilly.

-He told them he was here.

-What?

1:10:291:10:34

We're trying to find out where Mr Friese-Greene is, my lady.

1:10:341:10:38

-Where is this fellow?

-Miss Tagg!

1:10:381:10:40

-It's absolutely disgusting.

-I agree, my lord. Find out what's happened to Mr Friese-Greene.

-Nobody knows.

1:10:401:10:46

Nearly right, Bob. Put plenty in this time.

1:10:521:10:55

-It smells just like...

-Yes, stir it up, stir it up.

1:10:571:11:00

Now, Mrs Friese-Greene, I must be getting on my rounds.

1:11:021:11:06

-It was very good of you to call, Doctor.

-It's a pleasure, ma'am.

1:11:061:11:10

Remember what I told you. You're very delicate. You always have been.

1:11:101:11:14

You need plenty of rest and, above all, no worry.

1:11:141:11:17

Leave the worrying to your husband.

1:11:171:11:19

I'll remember, Doctor.

1:11:191:11:21

Doctor, don't mention anything to him about...

1:11:211:11:24

Well, about what you've just said. It will only upset him.

1:11:241:11:28

I won't have to as long as you do as I tell you.

1:11:281:11:31

Forgive me, what is that strange smell?

1:11:321:11:35

Oh, it's only my husband. He's got his laboratory down in the basement.

1:11:361:11:41

Oh. I thought he was a photographer?

1:11:411:11:43

Well, give him my kind regards.

1:11:481:11:51

BELL RINGS I will. Will you excuse me?

1:11:511:11:53

Hello, Mrs Willie. Where is he? All right, I know. Pardon me.

1:11:531:11:57

My husband's partner.

1:11:591:12:01

Indeed.

1:12:011:12:03

Well, goodbye, Mrs Friese-Greene.

1:12:031:12:05

Don't be ridiculous. I can't be everywhere at once. I've told you how important this work is to me.

1:12:081:12:14

Let me tell you something. I've reasoned, I've pleaded with you.

1:12:141:12:18

I've tried to be understanding, but enough's enough.

1:12:181:12:21

Eight cancellations in 48 hours, including that duchess and a Russian princess!

1:12:211:12:26

-I couldn't have made a decent portrait of her anyway!

-You're ruining the business.

-Rubbish!

1:12:261:12:31

I'm a businessman. I won't be losing money while you do crackpot experiments like this. Do you hear?

1:12:311:12:37

Yes, I hear. Give that to me. Let me tell you something, Mr Collings. You big businessmen are all the same.

1:12:371:12:43

Just because you can read a profit and loss account,

1:12:431:12:46

you think you can tell the rest of the world what to do.

1:12:461:12:49

Anything that isn't busy making money for you is a waste of time.

1:12:491:12:53

Anything you can't understand is a crackpot experiment,

1:12:531:12:57

but if it weren't for them and the people who make them,

1:12:571:13:00

-most businessmen wouldn't exist at all, except as market place pedlars.

-That's enough.

1:13:001:13:05

-Oh, I'm a pedlar, am I?

-Yes!

1:13:051:13:07

And I've got some work to do, real work. Get out of my way!

1:13:071:13:11

I can see it's hopeless. I'm dissolving the partnership.

1:13:111:13:15

-But Arthur, why?

-I can't afford it. Look at that lot!

1:13:151:13:19

Bills for all this rubbish, but charged to the business.

1:13:191:13:23

I'm not stingy, but I'm not a fool either. I've had enough.

1:13:231:13:26

-There's £1,200 owing there. Pay it out of your own pocket. I'm going to see a lawyer.

-Oh, Arthur!

1:13:261:13:32

Well!

1:13:341:13:35

That's that.

1:13:371:13:39

-Can we pay them?

-£1,200? Just about, but there's as much again to come in.

1:13:411:13:45

And so much still to be done.

1:13:451:13:48

-I can't stop now, Helena. I can't.

-Of course you can't, but the money...

1:13:481:13:53

We'll find the money somehow. We'll find a way.

1:13:531:13:56

Yes.

1:13:571:13:58

-Willie...

-Hmm?

1:14:011:14:03

We own this house, don't we?

1:14:051:14:07

Of course, Mr Friese-Greene.

1:14:111:14:13

We never mind an overdraft secured against bricks and mortar.

1:14:131:14:17

That's a very nice house you've got. If you'd mind just signing there at the bottom...

1:14:171:14:23

Are you opening another branch?

1:14:241:14:26

Tom, it's got to fit much more snugly into the ratchet. We're getting too much play there.

1:14:261:14:31

As you're my only relative in London, Alfred, I thought of you.

1:14:311:14:35

-Shall we make money out of it?

-We're certain to. There's nothing else like it.

-I suppose not.

1:14:351:14:40

But do you think people really want to see moving pictures?

1:14:401:14:44

INAUDIBLE

1:14:511:14:53

Here we are, Mr Friese-Greene. Finished at last.

1:15:141:15:17

You've done a good job here, Tom.

1:15:241:15:26

-I think it's pretty fair, sir.

-How's the celluloid going?

1:15:261:15:30

Terrible stuff. Makes the most awful smell. My wife can't stand it, so I had to fit up a lab in the city.

1:15:301:15:36

-Do you think it will work?

-I don't know, Mr Lege.

1:15:361:15:39

To tell you the truth, I've put so much into this, I hardly have the courage to make the test.

1:15:391:15:44

-Ah, well...

-Oh, by the way, Mr Friese-Greene, the account...

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Just send it to me at the lab - 24 Brooke Street, Holborn. Thanks, Tom. Good day, Mr Lege.

1:15:501:15:55

Good day, Mr Friese-Greene.

1:15:551:15:58

CHURCH BELLS RING

1:16:001:16:02

Come along, Ethel. We're just going.

1:16:061:16:09

You're not ready. Aren't you coming to church?

1:16:211:16:24

-No, not this Sunday.

-Don't you feel well?

-Yes, I feel all right. I just don't feel like going to church.

1:16:241:16:30

I may see Cousin Alfred.

1:16:301:16:32

-Oh, dear. Has he written again?

-No, I just invited him to come for a stroll in the park.

1:16:321:16:37

You invited HIM?

1:16:371:16:40

Yes, just to keep him in touch with progress and so forth.

1:16:401:16:44

Oh, well...

1:16:461:16:48

-Have you got the prayer books?

-Yes.

-Don't be late for lunch.

1:16:551:16:58

No, no. Goodbye. Enjoy yourselves.

1:16:581:17:01

-We are going to church, Willie!

-What? Oh, yes. Goodbye.

1:17:011:17:04

FRONT DOOR CLOSES

1:17:101:17:12

Bertie, we're going to meet your Uncle Willie. Ten to one he's after money again.

1:18:131:18:18

I don't want you repeating anything you've heard me say to your mother.

1:18:181:18:22

Put your cap on straight. Walk like a little gentleman. And keep your mouth shut.

1:18:221:18:27

-Hello, Cousin Willie. What have you got there? What are you turning that handle for?

-Just an experiment.

1:18:411:18:47

-How are you, Cousin Alfred?

-Not so badly, thanks.

-Hello, Bertie.

-Is that the new camera?

1:18:471:18:52

-Yes. I thought you'd like to see it first.

-Does it work?

-I don't know. It may want some more work.

1:18:521:18:58

-More work? That'll mean more money, I suppose.

-Well, yes, possibly.

1:18:581:19:03

-I want to take some pictures of the parade. Would you bring the tripod?

-I don't mind doing that.

1:19:031:19:08

Mind your fingers.

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BELL CHIMES

1:19:171:19:19

BELL CHIMES

1:21:221:21:24

-Hello.

-Hello, Charlie.

-Well, everything's quiet, nothing to report.

1:21:301:21:35

-Who won the skittles?

-Sergeant Prescott.

-Oh.

1:21:351:21:38

-What's that light on there?

-I don't know. It's been on all evening.

1:21:381:21:43

-Oh.

-Well, I'll be getting along now.

1:21:431:21:45

LOUD MIAOW

1:23:071:23:09

-Now then, where are you off to?

-Come quickly. Come and see.

1:23:091:23:13

-Just a minute. What is all this?

-I've got something to show you. You must come and see.

1:23:131:23:18

-Something you've done?

-Yes, come on and I'll show you.

1:23:181:23:21

It's only a little way. I've only just this minute done it.

1:23:211:23:25

I was frightened out of my wits, but I've done it.

1:23:251:23:28

It's very foolish of me, but I've got to show someone.

1:23:281:23:31

Cousin Alfred didn't even know what I was doing. He just stared and said, "What have you got there?"

1:23:311:23:37

There he is. You can see him almost as if he were alive!

1:23:371:23:41

Here we are now.

1:23:411:23:43

-It's upstairs.

-Just a minute...

1:23:451:23:48

-What?

-Are you...

1:23:481:23:50

Are you the owner of these premises?

1:23:501:23:52

-No, I'm just one of the tenants. I'm the one that makes the smells. Friese-Greene's my name.

-I see.

1:23:521:23:58

Is there...anyone else on the premises?

1:23:591:24:02

No, not at night. I'm here on my own.

1:24:021:24:05

Oh, I see.

1:24:051:24:07

You lead the way, Mr Friese-Greene.

1:24:071:24:10

It's not far up.

1:24:101:24:12

Where is it?

1:24:411:24:43

-Where's what?

-What you've done.

-Just sit down there. You'll see.

1:24:431:24:48

Now then, would you mind turning out your lamp?

1:25:051:25:08

Good. Now, watch that white sheet.

1:25:141:25:17

That was Hyde Park.

1:26:301:26:32

I recognised it.

1:26:331:26:36

Where's it come from? Where's it gone to?

1:26:451:26:48

It's all here. Here, look.

1:26:481:26:50

That's where the Hyde Park you saw is.

1:26:501:26:53

-Like a magic lantern.

-But it moved.

-Yes, it moved, didn't it?

1:26:551:26:59

Look at this strip of celluloid film. It's taken me years to get to that, years.

1:26:591:27:05

That's the secret - dozens of snapshots of Hyde Park.

1:27:051:27:08

Only, in one picture, the carriage is here, the next, it's here, the next, it's here and so on.

1:27:081:27:15

Look at the mechanism. The film, that's what it's called, comes from this spool over these rollers...

1:27:151:27:21

That's the tension. ..on to this second spool down here.

1:27:211:27:24

Now look in the middle. It's a bit like a magic lantern.

1:27:241:27:27

But instead of one picture at a time, you see eight or more pictures every second.

1:27:271:27:33

That's what you see on that sheet there - eight pictures every second

1:27:331:27:37

and they all merge together into one moving, living picture! See?

1:27:371:27:42

Of course, there's a bit more to it than that.

1:27:431:27:47

I'm not saying it's perfect. Far from it.

1:27:471:27:50

But it works. God be praised, it works, doesn't it? You can see that.

1:27:501:27:54

You know, it's a quite extraordinary feeling,

1:27:581:28:02

something you've been wondering about and reading about for 15 years

1:28:021:28:07

and then all of a sudden, it's there!

1:28:071:28:11

It's in your hands.

1:28:111:28:13

With a life of its own.

1:28:141:28:17

You must be...a very happy man, Mr...Friese-Greene.

1:28:211:28:27

Darling...

1:28:491:28:50

Darling...

1:28:501:28:52

It works.

1:28:551:28:57

Yes. It works!

1:28:571:29:00

A moving picture on a sheet!

1:29:021:29:05

Old Alfred and his boy, bless him, walking in Hyde Park!

1:29:051:29:09

Oh, my dear!

1:29:111:29:13

Of course, it's only a beginning, but it does work. You do get movement.

1:29:131:29:18

All the people in the world will want to see moving pictures because movement is life.

1:29:181:29:23

Listen to me. All the people in the world. In a couple of years' time, we'll be millionaires! Millionaires!

1:29:231:29:29

Mr Friese-Greene, this invention of yours may be very ingenious.

1:29:351:29:39

But the fact remains that you cannot pay your debts.

1:29:391:29:42

Everybody wanted their money back at once. They wouldn't give me time.

1:29:421:29:47

Time?

1:29:471:29:48

Yes, time to develop the camera commercially.

1:29:481:29:51

But these heavy expenditures went on long after you'd sold your rights and the patent.

1:29:511:29:57

I've already told you. The work could not stop. I had to carry on.

1:29:571:30:01

I don't pretend to be a businessman. All I know is that people will want to see moving pictures.

1:30:011:30:07

Mr Friese-Greene, this is an accounting and we are concerned with facts,

1:30:071:30:12

not with your faith in a camera.

1:30:121:30:14

Now...

1:30:141:30:16

How do you explain this?

1:30:161:30:18

Very well, madam, if you make a decision within the next 48 hours,

1:30:181:30:22

I'm sure our client will let you have the house on those terms.

1:30:221:30:26

-Thank you. May I keep the keys for the present?

-Yes, madam, by all means.

-Thank you very much.

1:30:261:30:32

Madam!

1:30:361:30:37

Madam!

1:30:381:30:40

Mr Wilson! Mr Wilson!

1:30:411:30:43

I think I ought to warn you now that your heart is in a very serious condition.

1:30:481:30:53

Tell me, Doctor, what this means exactly.

1:30:571:31:00

Well, it means that there is very little that medicine can do for you.

1:31:011:31:05

The cure is mainly in your own hands.

1:31:051:31:08

-I see.

-If you were my patient, you would go straight to your bed and stay there for at least a year.

1:31:081:31:13

Your own doctor will advise you, of course.

1:31:131:31:16

Perhaps you will be kind enough to give him this.

1:31:161:31:19

I had an opportunity of examining you during an attack. This will be helpful to him.

1:31:191:31:24

Wait a minute. Mrs Smith, will you call a four-wheeler for this lady?

1:31:241:31:28

Helena, I've got a nice cup of tea for you.

1:32:021:32:05

Thank you.

1:32:051:32:07

How did it go?

1:32:071:32:09

Not very well, but it's all over.

1:32:091:32:12

This house is to be sold on the 7th.

1:32:131:32:15

Has everything gone?

1:32:201:32:22

Yes, the studios,

1:32:221:32:25

the house, everything.

1:32:251:32:27

Cheer up, my dear. It's not as bad as all that, is it?

1:32:301:32:34

Aren't you having any tea?

1:32:391:32:41

No, thank you.

1:32:411:32:43

There's a little whisky left on the shelf over there.

1:32:431:32:47

Yes, that's a good idea.

1:32:471:32:49

We'll have to find some rooms somewhere.

1:32:531:32:57

What about a place to work?

1:32:571:32:59

I'm bankrupt now, you see.

1:32:591:33:02

That means nobody will let me have a place without cash in advance and I haven't any cash.

1:33:021:33:07

I'll just have to find someone to give me a job.

1:33:081:33:12

I could get a place, Willie.

1:33:121:33:14

How do you mean?

1:33:141:33:17

I am not bankrupt. I have seen a house in Chelsea.

1:33:171:33:20

The ground floor would make a studio. There are three rooms that we could sub-let.

1:33:201:33:25

But Helena, who is going to lend us money?

1:33:251:33:28

We've got the money.

1:33:281:33:30

I sold the jewellery you gave me and I had a little put by too for a rainy day.

1:33:321:33:38

And now it's the rainy day, isn't it?

1:33:391:33:42

Oh, no. No, darling.

1:33:421:33:44

You mustn't stop me. I have made up my mind.

1:33:441:33:48

I thought it might be the laboratory.

1:34:041:34:07

There's space, all the space in the world.

1:34:141:34:18

No running water, though. Yes, there is, the very thing.

1:34:181:34:22

I'll put a sink in there. I'll put the shelves over there

1:34:221:34:25

and the cupboards for the chemicals and the books.

1:34:251:34:28

We'll run a bench along there and another bench here down the middle.

1:34:281:34:32

When these skylights are clean, there'll be all the light in the world.

1:34:321:34:37

Willie, I nearly forgot.

1:34:371:34:39

I bought you a present.

1:34:391:34:41

You did what?

1:34:411:34:43

It's your birthday.

1:34:431:34:45

By Jove, so it is!

1:34:451:34:47

I saw it in the place where I sold the jewellery.

1:34:471:34:50

I remembered you saying before this trouble started that it was something you wanted.

1:34:501:34:55

A prism, darling! Look...

1:34:551:34:57

Oh, there's no light now. Never mind.

1:34:571:35:00

I'll show you... But dearest, these things are expensive.

1:35:001:35:04

I spoke softly to the man.

1:35:041:35:07

It's the most wonderful present.

1:35:101:35:13

-Willie...

-Hmm?

1:35:161:35:18

Do you remember the night of the Choral Society concert

1:35:191:35:23

when you went to see Fox Talbot?

1:35:231:35:26

Will I ever forget? I don't think they ever forgave me.

1:35:271:35:30

No, they didn't.

1:35:301:35:32

But I wasn't thinking of the concert.

1:35:331:35:36

It was something you told me much later that I always remember.

1:35:361:35:41

Something Fox Talbot said.

1:35:421:35:44

It was about inventors.

1:35:441:35:46

Oh, yes. The inventor must never mind seeming a little foolish to his contemporaries.

1:35:461:35:52

-Hmm? He must always look to his star.

-Mm-hm.

1:35:521:35:56

In the end, he may still fail, but this is unimportant.

1:35:571:36:02

If he is true to himself,

1:36:021:36:04

he will not be too unhappy

1:36:041:36:07

or embittered, even in failure...

1:36:071:36:10

..and will still speak for what is good.

1:36:111:36:14

You won't forget that, Willie, will you?

1:36:161:36:20

ANIMATED CONVERSATION

1:36:221:36:24

GAVEL BANGS

1:36:291:36:31

CONVERSATION CONTINUES

1:36:321:36:34

Gentlemen, please! GAVEL BANGS

1:36:371:36:40

Gentlemen, please!

1:36:401:36:42

Order, order!

1:36:421:36:44

Gentlemen!

1:36:441:36:46

I don't think that any useful purpose can be served by prolonging this meeting.

1:36:481:36:54

-Mr Chairman!

-I therefore propose...

-Mr Chairman, could I...?

1:36:541:36:58

Let the old man speak. Give them time to simmer down.

1:36:581:37:03

Will you come up to the platform, please? I'm afraid you can't be heard there.

1:37:031:37:08

Gentlemen, I...

1:37:151:37:17

-Just speak up a little louder, will you, please?

-Oh, yes.

1:37:171:37:21

Gentlemen, I am not a businessman. No...

1:37:211:37:24

-Well, sit down then.

-You know, when this business was a fairground sideshow,

1:37:241:37:29

I suppose you could only speak of it in terms of pounds, shillings and pence.

1:37:291:37:34

-Oh, sit down!

-Only a few of us could see then

1:37:341:37:38

it would become a sort of universal language.

1:37:381:37:42

And it has become that, you see.

1:37:421:37:45

And this universal language that could say great things...

1:37:451:37:52

Oh, dear, it so often babbles and drivels so foolishly...

1:37:531:37:59

It does, you know. ..that in time, the world will, well, it will tire of it.

1:37:591:38:05

Rubbish!

1:38:051:38:06

If the film does not grow up with its audience, then it will die.

1:38:061:38:10

You know,

1:38:101:38:13

it's only in the nursery that children fight and destroy the things in their hands.

1:38:131:38:20

The film is in your hands

1:38:211:38:24

and you may not behave like children.

1:38:241:38:28

You must not destroy it!

1:38:281:38:30

Don't!

1:38:301:38:32

It's... It's very easy to be good businessmen.

1:38:381:38:42

It's so difficult to grow up.

1:38:431:38:46

So difficult.

1:38:461:38:48

And so...I ask you...

1:38:511:38:56

I...ask you

1:38:561:39:00

to work together.

1:39:001:39:02

Yes.

1:39:021:39:03

-MUTTERING

-All my life, gentlemen,

1:39:031:39:07

I have tried.

1:39:071:39:09

There's so much to hope for.

1:39:111:39:14

So much.

1:39:141:39:16

I have tried.

1:39:171:39:19

Are you all right, sir?

1:39:191:39:22

Hmm?

1:39:231:39:24

Oh, I'm perfectly all right.

1:39:241:39:27

Perfectly...

1:39:271:39:29

There's something I wanted to say to my wife.

1:39:301:39:34

Something I wanted... to say to my wife.

1:39:351:39:38

GAVEL BANGS

1:39:401:39:42

In view of that appeal, I think we might make some endeavour to adjust our differences

1:39:421:39:49

and seek a solution of the problem...

1:39:491:39:52

-Can I get you a glass of water, sir?

-I'm perfectly all right.

1:39:521:39:55

After all, each of us seeks the same end - a prosperous industry. I would urge you...

1:39:551:40:02

'The children were asking after you, Willie.'

1:40:021:40:05

'But you did invent the moving pictures, didn't you, Father?'

1:40:051:40:09

HELENA: 'You are an experimenter, somebody who tries out new things.

1:40:091:40:13

'All you need is just a little courage.'

1:40:131:40:16

'Squad, present boots!'

1:40:161:40:18

'They'll send them back, won't they?

1:40:181:40:21

'They must send them back when they know they're under age.'

1:40:211:40:25

'You are a child, a stupid, clumsy child!'

1:40:251:40:29

'It's the truth, Willie!'

1:40:301:40:32

'But the encyclopedia...

1:40:321:40:34

'He said it didn't even mention your name.'

1:40:351:40:39

POLICEMAN: 'You must be a very happy man, Mr Friese-Greene.'

1:40:401:40:45

ANXIOUS MUTTERING

1:40:561:40:58

Do you know his name?

1:41:131:41:15

-I'm afraid he's dead.

-Poor old chap.

-We must notify the police.

1:41:151:41:19

-What about his family? Does anybody know where he lives?

-No, I'll try and find out.

1:41:191:41:24

Let me see. There must be some identification.

1:41:241:41:27

Would you take that, please?

1:41:281:41:30

Here we are. "Mr W Friese-Greene."

1:41:301:41:33

Hear, hear! Hear, hear! APPLAUSE

1:41:361:41:39

Pawn ticket for some cuff links.

1:41:431:41:45

A prism.

1:41:511:41:53

One and ten pence.

1:42:011:42:03

Just the price of a seat at the pictures.

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