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ON THE NATURE OF CINEMA 75
scopic film of the future, and the monochromatic, scenographic film of to-day.
Scene 3
The Camp and Harbour of Boulogne
The English coast in the distance. Near the Tour d'Ordre stands a hut, with sentinels and aides outside; it is Napoleon's temporary lodging when not at his headquarters at the Chateau of Point-de-Briques, two miles inland.
DUMB SHOW
A courier arrives with dispatches, and enters the Emperor's quarters, whence he emerges and goes on with other dispatches to the hut of Decres, lower down. Immediately after, Napoleon comes out from his hut with a paper in his hand, and musingly proceeds towards an eminence commanding the Channel.
Along the shore below are forming in afar-reaching line more than a hundred thousand infantry. On the downs in the rear of the camps fifteen thousand cavalry are manoeuvring, their accoutrements flashing in the sun like a school of mackerel. The flotilla lies in and around the port, alive with moving figures.
With his head forward and his hands behind him, the Emperor surveys these animated proceedings in detail, but more frequently turns his face towards the telegraph on the cliff to the south-west, erected to signal when Villeneuve and the combined squadrons shall be visible on the west horizon.
He summons one of the aides, who descends to the hut of Decres. Decres comes out from his hut, and hastens to join the Emperor. Dumb show ends.
Napoleon and Decres advance to the foreground of the scene.
Napoleon :
Decres, this action with Sir Robert Calder Three weeks ago, whereof we dimly heard, And clear details of which I have just unsealed, Is on the whole auspicious for our plan. It seems that twenty of our ships and Spain's — None over eighty-gunned, and some far less —