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British Board of Film Censors carried on the affair so very excellently that not only did the whole body of film-makers (after a little struggling) come into it and support it heartily, but it became the example to other censorships everywhere, in spite of the fact that it belongs to, and is supported by, the very people who have to obey its edicts.
If ever the true story of the British film industry comes to be written it will be found that there is one name which streaks along it like a bright ray of light, from near the beginning, and on through its most important years. It is not to be found on any advertisements, scarcely appears in any trade paper, was never seen on any programme or list of important people. Yet there is no name better known through all the industry than that of Brooke-Wilkinson .
I met him first in the offices of the Photographic Dealer, run by my friend, Arthur Brookes, for whom I occasionally wrote some semitechnical articles. Mr. Wilkinson as we called him then was a dapper little man, without obvious personality or any hint of the skill and extraordinary tact which he displayed in after years. He was on the advertising staff of the Dealer and was understood to possess considerable knowledge of photographic and chemical apparatus, and he had a quietly genial and pleasant manner.
When the Kinematograph Manufacturers Association was formed I was, I think, its first chairman. Anyhow, when its work began to accumulate and we came in need of a secretary, I remembered the dapper little man in the office of the Photographic Dealer and suggested he should be approached. He duly accepted the job and held it to the end of his life.
Thus it came about that when three or four of us, in a little informal committee with W. G. Barker, began to discuss the matter of a trade censorship to keep undesirable elements out of the films, it naturally fell to the K.M.A. to father the scheme and to BrookeWilkinson to be its secretary. And then he began to unfold. He pointed out that we must have a prominent and wellknown man to be its head and at a salary which made us gasp. But we felt he was right and T. P. O'Connor was approached and he accepted the post of first film censor.
But for all practical purposes BrookeWilkinson was himself the censor. It was he who suggested 'Tay Pay' and he who approached him and fixed it all up. He did the same in the case of each succeeding official censor and it was he who selected and appointed
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