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That gentleman thought awhile and then said, 'Well, get us permission to take a photo of the Cabinet assembling in the historic Cabinet Room, and we will probably get you all you want.'
Thus he spake, thinking that the dauntless one would be crushed for ever by such a problem. Not so, however. Within a week or two, the telephone rang, and the report came through: 'It's all fixed up. You can photo the Cabinet whenever you like.'
Mr. Newbould now had to go ahead. He had asked for the moon and got it. He had no excuse for drawing back. Not that he wanted to do so, for his own enthusiasm was aroused, and when Mr. Newbould is enthusiastic things get done. Much of his keenness percolated through to the exhibitors, and arrangements were soon on foot for making this charity not only the biggest thing in charities which the kinematograph trade had ever touched, but incidentally, one of the biggest booms for the trade itself. A gala performance was to be held in a big representative kinematograph theatre in London, and there is very little doubt but that the King himself would have been present, and thereby set a seal upon the British kinematograph industry, the influence of which would have been permanent and far-reaching. At this gala performance the opportunity would have been taken of proving to immense numbers of British people who still need a proof that English films are being made today which are equal to anything the rest of the world can show. Only British-made pictures would have appeared upon that programme and in the very nature of things they would thereby have invited comparison with the very best of the rest of the world's productions.
Meanwhile, Mr. W. G. Barker was calling a meeting of British manufacturers and producers, to discuss the best means of carrying out the work involved, and a committee of three, consisting of Messrs. W. G. Barker, G. L. Tucker and myself, was appointed to make all the necessary arrangements, and take the Cabinet Film. It was at this first meeting of this committee that I let drop a bomb, which kept the said committee quiet for a considerable number of minutes. All the time these negotiations had been going forward, I had been nursing a guilty secret which I could no longer keep to myself. It was this. For many months I had been quietly taking a series of what we technically call 'close-ups' of these very Cabinet ministers, whom it was now proposed to photograph en masse. I had, in fact, already got this Cabinet picture in detail, and in far better detail at that, than could
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