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and said I was welcome to whichever one I chose, my defences all broke down. For they were the most adorable things in the puppy line I had ever seen and my wife fell in love with them on the spot and so did the children. We chose the dog and in due course Baynes put the other one back in his pocket and left 'Sturdee,' as we promptly called him, in his new home. He grew up to be a glorious specimen of his noble race and he was my indispensable companion for many years, and though he did not take any 'star' part in films he often 'walked on5 in minor roles or strolled about in the background. I am sorry to say he once or twice disgraced me by hurting children in over-exuberant demonstrations of what was supposed to be affection and got me into trouble with the police on one occasion, when they took me to court and suggested he ought to be destroyed. But while I was dreading the worst and wildly wondering how I could possibly evade it, he got off with a caution and set my spirit free.
The war, of course, played the dickens with most of our affairs and arrangements. For one thing it early drained away the younger members of the staff and although they were less important than many of the others, the work often had to be done by those others or by some different substitute. I call to mind a curious instance of this. I think I have mentioned that our method of drying was to wind up the wet film as it came from the developing machine, take it on its spool up to the drying-rooms and there festoon it on the hooks strung on wires under the ceiling. I had all along been intending to make the developing machines complete by linking them with drying-banks operating in close conjunction with them, but that project had somehow got postponed in the more exciting affairs of making film pictures and running a business. Meanwhile the handwork was quick and not very difficult, but several youngsters had to be allocated to it.
I saw that they and many others would soon be withdrawn and I determined to make the drying arrangements automatic and linked mechanically to the developing machines. The scheme was easy to work out but it was difficult to get made anything mechanical. I wanted dozens of brass tubes with hundreds of flanges on them for the film to travel along. I obtained the tubes and got 'blanks' of approximately the right size for the flanges. But they had to be machined to exactly the right dimensions and shaped so as to lead the wet film on without damaging it.
Alma Taylor volunteered to do any work she could when she
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