Lieutenant Geoffrey H. Malins O.B.E.
Malins was one of the first professional cinemaphotographers.
He had always been interested in photography and as a young man he joined the staff of the Clarendon Film Company in London, one of the pioneer firms in the industry. There he made such progress that in time he was entrusted with the filming of major productions, costing, as he recounts "thousands of pounds" - a very large sum in those days. From Clarendon he went on to the Gaumont Company, where he was when war broke out.
Almost as soon as the war started, he was sent by Gaumont to Belgium to record what was happening.
He did this on a freelance basis, experiencing adventures which would not have disgraced the pages of "Boys Own Paper", until the Autumn of 1915 when he was appointed "Official Kinematographer" by the War Office.
