+------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in | | this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of | | this document. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ HOW I FILMED THE WAR _When I was in France I made arrangements with my friend Mr. Low Warren, at that time Editor of the_ Kinematograph Weekly, _to arrange the manuscript I sent him for publication in book form._ _The manuscript has in no way been altered in any material respect, and is in the form in which I originally wrote it._ _GEOFFREY H. MALINS._ [Illustration: FILMING THE PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT OF THE BIG PUSH, JULY 1ST, 1916. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN A SHELL BURST WITHIN SIX YARDS, SMASHING DOWN THE TRENCH WALLS AND HALF BURYING ME. NOTE THE SANDBAG ON A WIRE IN FRONT OF MY CAMERA FOR "CAMOUFLAGE"] HOW I FILMED THE WAR A RECORD OF THE EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES OF THE MAN WHO FILMED THE GREAT SOMME BATTLES ETC. BY LIEUT. GEOFFREY H. MALINS, O.B.E. EDITED BY LOW WARREN HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED YORK STREET, ST. JAMES'S LONDON, S.W. 1 MCMXX CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I A FEW WORDS OF INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II WITH THE BELGIANS AT RAMSCAPELLE PAGE 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 Ramscapelle--I Leave the Company and Lose my Way in the Darkness--A Welcome Light and a Long Sleep--How Little does the Public know of the Dangers and Difficulties a Film Operator has to Face 6 CHAPTER III WITH THE GOUMIERS AT LOMBARTZYDE 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--I Take the Chief's Photograph for the First Time--And Afterwards take Food with Him--An Interesting and Fruitful Adventure Ends Satisfactorily 15 CHAPTER IV THE BATTLE OF THE SAND-DUNES 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 Films--A Collision with an Obstructive Mule 22 CHAPTER V UNDER HEAVY SHELL-FIRE