A Firework Display Heralds the Arrival of "The Day"--How the Boys Spent Their Last Few Hours in the Trenches--Rats as Bedfellows--I Make an Early Start--And Get Through a Mine-shaft into "No Man's Land"--The Great Event Draws Near--Anxious Moments--The Men Fix Bayonets--And Wait the Word of Command to "Go Over the Top" 151 CHAPTER XIV THE DAY AND THE HOUR A Mighty Convulsion Signalises the Commencement of Operations--Then Our Boys "Go Over the Top"--A Fine Film Obtained whilst Shells Rained Around Me--My Apparatus is Struck--But, Thank Goodness, the Camera is Safe--Arrival of the Wounded--"Am I in the Picture?" they ask 162 CHAPTER XV ROLL-CALL AFTER THE FIGHT A Glorious Band of Wounded Heroes Stagger Into Line and Answer the Call--I Visit a Stricken Friend in a Dug-out--On the Way to La Boisselle I Get Lost in the Trenches--And Whilst Filming Unexpectedly Come Upon the German Line--I Have a Narrow Squeak of Being Crumped--But Get Away Safely--And later Commandeer a Couple of German Prisoners to Act as Porters 169 CHAPTER XVI EDITING A BATTLE FILM The Process Described in Detail--Developing the Negative--Its Projection on the Screen--Cutting--Titling--Joining--Printing the Positive--Building Up the Story--It is Submitted to the Military Censors at General Headquarters--And After Being Cut and Approved by Them--Is Ready for Public Exhibition 178 CHAPTER XVII THE HORRORS OF TRONES WOOD Three Times I Try and Fail to Reach this Stronghold of the Dead--Which Has Been Described as "Hell on Earth"--At a Dressing Station under Fire--Smoking Two Cigarettes at a Time to Keep off the Flies--Some Amusing Trench Conversations by Men who had Lost Their Way--I Turn in for the Night--And Have a Dead Bosche for Company 183 CHAPTER XVIII FILMING AT POZIÈRES AND CONTALMAISON Looking for "Thrills"--And How I Got Them--I Pass Through "Sausage Valley," on the Way to Pozières--You _May_ and you _Might_--What a Tommy Found in a German Dug-out--How Fritz Got "Some of His Own" Back--Taking Pictures in What Was Once Pozières--"Proofs Ready To-morrow" 196 CHAPTER XIX ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT WITH THE KING His Majesty's Arrival at Boulogne--At G.H.Q.--General Burstall's Appreciation--The King on the Battlefield of Fricourt--Within Range of the Enemy's Guns--His Majesty's Joke Outside a German Dug-out--His Memento from a Hero's Grave--His Visit to a Casualty Clearing Station--The King and the Puppy--Once in Disgrace--Now a Hospital Mascot 205 CHAPTER XX KING AND PRESIDENT MEET