clapped on a higher power to get a close-up of the frantic and distorted face (admirable!);switched over, for half a minute, to slow motion (an exquisitely comical effect, he promised himself);listened in, meanwhile, to the blows, the groans, the wild and raving words that were being recorded on the sound-track at the edge of his film,tried the effect of a little amplification (yes, that was decidedly better);was delighted to hear, in a momentary lull, the shrill singing of a lark;the accommodating fellow did turn round, and he was able to take a perfect close-up."Well, that was grand!" he said to himself when it was all over."Really grand!" He mopped his face.When they had put in the feely effects at the studio, it would be a wonderful film.Twelve days later The Savage of Surrey had been released and could be seen,heard and felt in every first-class feely-palace in Western Europe.The effect of Darwin Bonaparte's film was immediate and enormous.On the afternoon which followed the evening of its release John's rustic solitude was suddenly broken by the arrival overhead of a great swarm of helicopters.
