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 a Heap of Ruins--Arras a City of the Dead--Its Cathedral Destroyed--But Cross and Crucifixes Unharmed 80 CHAPTER VII THE BATTLE OF ST. ELOI 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 Battle of St. Eloi--Which I Film from Our First-Line Trench--And Obtain a Fine Picture 85 CHAPTER VIII A NIGHT ATTACK--AND A NARROW ESCAPE 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 Trenches--And Have One of the Narrowest Escapes--But Fortunately Get Out with Nothing Worse than a Couple of Bullets Through My Cap 93 CHAPTER IX FOURTEEN THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE GERMAN LINES 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 Experience--And a Narrow Escape--A Five Thousand Foot Dive Through Space 107 CHAPTER X FILMING THE EARTH FROM THE CLOUDS 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 Freezing Experience--Filming the Earth as we Dived Almost Perpendicularly--A Picture that would Defy the Most Ardent Futurist to Paint 116 CHAPTER XI PREPARING FOR THE "BIG PUSH" 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 Shrieking Devils--Fritz's Way of "Making Love"--I Visit the "White City"--And On the Way have Another Experience of Gas Shells 121 CHAPTER XII FILMING UNDER FIRE 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 Surprise Meeting in the Trenches--A Reminder of Other Days--I Get Into a Tight Corner--And Have An Unpleasantly Hot Experience--I Interview a Trench Mortar--Have a Lively Quarter of an Hour--And Then Get Off 135 CHAPTER XIII THE DAWN OF JULY FIRST