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My first thought was that Home Forces had gone dotty, for this kind of show could have no sort of training value. And then I saw other things cameras and camera-men on platforms on the flanks, and men with megaphones behind them on wooden scaffoldings. One of the megaphones was going full blast all the time. I saw the meaning of the performance at last.
"Enough digging!" shouted the Captain. "Turn the loose earth back into the pit." The soldiers obeyed. "Are you ready?" he said as he turned to the camera-men. "All ready," came the reply. "Now," said the Captain winking maliciously to two of his men. "You run around and pick me up a beggar." The soldiers started off, pushing their way through the sheepish crowd and into a side street.
He hopped on one leg; he took the megaphone from his mouth to curse; he waved it like a banner and yelled at some opposite number on the other flank. And then his patience forsook him and he skipped down the ladder, dropping his megaphone, past the camera-men, on to the battlefield. That was his undoing. He got in the way of the second wave and was swallowed up like a leaf in a torrent.
There is great rivalry between the various film manufacturers and it was rather mean of the Corona to put my name on that placard." "It's wonderful!" exclaimed Patsy. "How did they get the picture, do you suppose?" "They have camera-men everywhere, looking for some picture worth while." explained Mrs. Montrose.
And quick action and a brisk finish always make for a better picture." "Hey, you!" commanded the Captain. "Go get another shovel and help dig." While two soldiers stood digging in a rectangular plot in the market-place, the camera-men had set up and were adjusting a motion picture apparatus. Twenty-five feet away stood six soldiers leaning on their rifles talking and laughing.
The words, "Mahbub is Thuggee," seemed to rend the veil which obscured the tragedy. Surely it was clear enough, now: here was a man killed by Thuggee's peculiar method, and here was the Thug. It was as simple as two and two! Every eye was on the bare-legged Hindu, impassive as ever, staring straight before him. The camera-men hastily pushed in fresh plates and trained their machines upon him.
"Those directors must be wonderfully enterprising fellows," said Beth. "They are, indeed, constantly on the lookout for effects. Every incident that occurs in real life is promptly taken advantage of. The camera-men are everywhere, waiting for their chance. Often their pictures prove of no value and are destroyed, but sometimes the scenes they catch are very useful to work into a picture play.
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