Soap and Swiss Milk

The operator and general manager for filming purposes was a man named Spencer Clarke who was my contact in the matter, there where I came in I cannot at all remember. In my recollection it feels as if the whole fantastic outfit burst upon me in a day and dropped out of my life again a few weeks later, though I seemed to have travelled about with Spencer Clarke quite a lot in the meantime.

And I have in my possession now two Lumière mechanisms which, I think, can only have come to me somehow through that connection. It is certainly very strange that two such important businesses should have joined hands and plunged together into the almost completely undeveloped sphere of the pictures – and plunged in such a big way too – apparently without any idea of what they meant to do about it. They faded out just as quietly as they came in and I never heard another word of them.

Cecil M Hepworth – Came the Dawn (1951)