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I76 CELLULOID
achieved the impossible. But it is not to be, for producers tell us that an epic film in the true sense of the word would not pay for the outlay on its production.
Thus, the film Tell England might have been one of two things: either the story of Doe and Ray, or the epic of Gallipoli. It succeeds in being neither. It has not the intimacy of mental relationships under strained conditions of a Journey's End; nor has it the grand sweeping rhythms and mass movement of a Battleship " Votemkjn."
Few critics will deny that Anthony Asquith possesses a very definite flair for manipulating the instruments of the cinema. At the first showing of one of his pictures we experience a certain anticipation, not of seeing anything pre-eminently great, but of witnessing some new angle on cinematic methods which may have arisen from his imagination. At least Asquith is always willing to experiment with new ideas, and he is not afraid of putting his conceptions before the public. With Grierson and his propagandist group in the van of British production, Asquith follows a lonely path, overcoming obstacles and fighting battles with his celluloid. His share in the direction of Tell England is far in advance of anything he has as yet done.
As I have remarked before, he has a pleasant sense of pictorial values and decided ideas of how to fill the rectangle of the screen. There are many lovely shots and combinations of shots in Tell England that bring