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At that moment the rising curtain revealed a cinematograph scene, representing a bull-dog which stole a mutton chop, was at once pursued by a policeman and the village population, rushed down streets and round corners, leapt through a lawyer's office, ran up the side of a house, followed by all his pursuers, and was finally discovered in a child's cot, where the child, with one arm round his neck, was endeavouring to make him say grace before meat.
The real value of the cinematograph in connection with stories is that it provides the background that is wanting to the inner vision of the average child, and does not prevent its imagination from filling in the details later.
As I dare say you've been told, the way to get at the essence of a landscape is to half-close your eyes you get the dominant notes that way, and shed the details. Well, I allowed I'd go one better, and see the whole show in motion. Have you ever seen a biograph or a cinematograph, as some call it?" "'Course I 'ave," said Tilda. "There was one in Maggs's Circus."
Those who care may see it in the official cinematograph films of the Battle of the Somme. Right at the top of the hill there is a dark enclosure of wood, orchard, and plantation, with several fairly well preserved red-brick buildings in it. This is the plateau-village of Auchonvillers. On the slopes below it, a couple of hundred yards behind Jacob's Ladder, there is a little round clump of trees.
It was a quick picture, like a flash of the cinematograph, but the pose of the lady as a driver was seen to be of a commanding grace, and though she was not in white but in light blue, and her plain sailor hat was certainly not trimmed with roses, I had not the least difficulty in recognising her.
The two men shook hands, and the new-comer seated himself in front of Hillyard. "You will take coffee and a cigar?" Hillyard asked in Spanish, and gave the order to the waiter. The two men talked of the heat, the cinematograph theatres at the side of the Plaza, the sea-bathing at Caldetas, and then the sharp-faced man leaned forward. "Ramon says there is no truth in the story, señor."
She sat silent beside me and I thought that she was wondering what had happened to her husband. Just before we reached the house she spoke, and I discovered that she had all the time been thinking of something else, not Ascher's absence. "I was wrong," she said, "in condemning the cinematograph and this new invention.
He pointed out to us that Life is Change, but that our intellect does not really grasp the reality of Change, for it is adapted to solids and to concepts, it resembles the cinematograph film.
She sighed at the distressing prospect before her. Mollie smiled as she wondered what school would make of Grizzel. She looked at Hugh, absorbed in some great new idea. What would he be like in forty years. In Chauncery Time he must now be fifty-four. Were there then two Hughs? And if two, why not twenty? Or hundreds, for that matter, like the films of a cinematograph.
Mr Wells' machinery is slightly complicated. He takes two figures from the beginning of this twentieth century. "The image of a cinematograph entertainment is the one to grasp," writes Mr Wells in his preliminary explanation.
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