i beg your pardon?
the observer.
sorry, sir.
those with girls on the front covers - and no front covers on the girls.
the louvre.
thank you, sir.
buy cameras.
think so, milly.
no, milly.
raise your head, please - and look at the sea.
i just wanted that puzzled look.
yes, milly.
take pictures.
no, milly.
no, milly.
i may show you - one day.
that's all, milly.
think of her then.
i want to.
i want to.
you needn't be shy.  of me.  it's my first time too.
in front of eyes.  like.
eyes.  as full of.
lorraine - let my camera tell you.
mark.
i'm mark.
thank you, but.  work.
thank you.
happy birthday.
minute.
thank you.
 very much.
i'd like to offer you a drink.
i haven't one.
will you.  would you.  like to come in?
there's milk.  if you'd like some?
yes.
yes.
all my life.
i was born in this house oh?
it's my father's.
well - no.  he's dead!
i'm the landlord.
yes.
i haven't.
i know.
it's his house - and i'll never sell it.  but i can't afford the upkeep, so i let rooms.
 if i charge too much, tell me and i'll tell the agents.
peace?
most of the time, i work in a film studio.
i hope to be a film director.  very soon.
i have some spare time jobs.  as well.
more milk?
yes.  to do with photography.
yes.
yes.
would it?
oh.
will you.  would you.  like to see them now?
i'll.  go first.
yes.
it belonged to my father
scientist.
no.
sold his to buy it.
don't know what to show you?
all right!
this is the first.  twenty-first birthday present.  i'll ever have given.
me
my father.
switch off?
no, helen.
wanted to photograph you.  watching.
liz.
not mine.
you'd better go!
better go.
i am saying.  goodbye.  my mother.
yes.
and this!
her funeral!
and this!
her burial!
and this!
her successor.
he married her.  six weeks after.  the previous sequence.
she filmed.  what comes now.
the morning that he left for his honeymoon.
giving me a present.
can't you guess?
a camera.
biologist.
watch me.  grow up.
he wanted a record of a growing child.  complete in every detail - if such a thing were possible - and he tried to make it possible by training a camera on me.  at all times.
i never knew.  the whole of my childhood.  one moment's privacy.
he was interested .  in the reactions of the nervous system.  to fear.  fear?
fear.
especially fear in children - and how they react to it.
i think he learned a lot.  from me.  i'd wake up.  screaming.  sometimes.  and he'd be there.  taking notes.  and pictures.  and i'm sure good came of it.  for some people.  he was brilliant.
i don't know.  if he did.  but if he did.  he'll have learned something of value.
he founded clinics.
he was famous! professor a. n. lewis.  three clinics.
they helped make me.  what i am.
one day.
thanks.  work.
hallo.
don't think so.
yes.
yes?
not if you do as i tell you.
you haven't.  said anything.  to anyone?
good.  like some cake?
right.
right.
there aren't any.
not just for you.  viv.  i have an agent too - and i want to show him what i can do.  i want to direct.
yes?
no, more cake?
i want.  to photograph.  the impossible.
something.  that has never been photographed before.
you really want to know?
i want.  to photograph a murder.  while it's being committed.
but that.  isn't enough.
i want.  to frighten.  someone.  to death.  and photograph.  their expression of fear.
that is something.  he never photographed.
anyone.
i wouldn't care.  if i had my picture.
there's a way.
there's a way.
please.
getting into practice.
see you tonight!
hallo, miss ashley.
not tonight.  meeting someone.  for a drink.
i hope so.
good night.
here, viv.
i know. they're branched off this stage - i'm using their juice.
they might.  .  but they won't interrupt us while we're filming.  i've put the red light on.
put the.
they won't come in.
the difference is.  a perfect film.
 have waited.  a long time.  for this.  and so have you .  no one.  must interrupt it.
what does that matter?
you stand to lose.  a job as an extra.  i stand to lose.  nothing.
the results must be so perfect.  that the risks don't count.
so perfect.  that even he .  .  even he.  would say.
it's time to find out, viv.
you belong there.
they feel alone without it.
 and the great ones.  feel alone.  all the time.
you remembered?
building us a set.
exactly.
be patient, viv.  it's going to be worth it.
ever stood.  behind one?
help yourself.
good.
i'll be back.
photographing you photographing me.
never mind.
i'm ready now, viv.
go and stand on that cross, will you?
yes, viv.
later.
ready, viv?
well.
imagine someone.  coming towards you.  who's going to kill you - regardless of consequences.
yes - but he knows it.  and you don't.  and just to kill you.  isn't enough for him.
stay there, viv.  you're.  just right.
suppose this.  were one of his weapons.
but.  there's something else.
who is it?
come in, helen!
would you.  please.  wait in there?.  developing.
won't be long!
hallo.
yes.
happy birthday.
it isn't much.  i don't know anything about.  presents for twenty-one.  but i saw it this morning.  so.  please.
i like the design.  more milk?
the first place.
no.  i promise.
from me? please.
what's embar.
had any published?
i'd like to read.
but that's wonderful.  what's it about?
whatever made you.  think of that?
well what does it photograph?
no - nothing's impossible.
oh yes.
take them.
i'd take them.  for you.
there are some things.  which i photograph.  for nothing.
offend?
helen.  if you knew what it meant.  for something to happen to me.  that i don't have to make happen.  it's like.  you've given me a twenty-first birthday.
what does your camera photograph?
when please?
helen .  i don't know much about.  dinner out.  but would you come with me?
thank you.
oh.
it had better be soon.
almost for certain! .
are you free.  tomorrow night?
i hope i am!
i'll try to be - i'll try my hardest to be.
and for mine.
good night.  helen.
hallo.
sorry, sir.
oh?
yes, i've a few quite interesting shots of them - it's a chance i never expected!
to photograph.  an investigation.  or as much of it as i can.
it will complete a documentary i'm making.
i'd rather not tell you till it's finished. and it soon will be .
oh they will - they look very efficient.
no.
i'm afraid they will! but by then.  i'll have finished with it.
thanks.
no, john.
i'm sure of that - but i'd like to photograph them while they're questioning me.
i don't suppose they'll let me.
yes, do you think they'll notice?
yes.  i'd like that.
yes, sir.
i've brought the camera in case you want to take the film away.
thank you, sir.
don't think so, sir.
yes, sir.
mainly by sight.
yesterday afternoon - when we broke.
called out good night - don't know if she heard?
took sqme shots, sir - for a film i'm making.
all over the place, sir.  it's a documentary.
no, sir. just my camera.
about ten.  ten-thirty.
yes.  the people downstairs.
thank you, sir .
i'll take you there, sir.
free?
good! so am i.
yes, please.
how do you do.  mrs. stephens.
yes.  .  didn't want to be late for helen.
nothing - thank you.  very much.
chipperfield studio . . .
no - no, i didn't.
the station.
i hope so - goodbye.
yes, helen?
without what?
oh.
i.  don't think i know?
i'm not going to need it tonight!
no!
i trust you.
this.  was my mother's room.
you.
i feel.
can't describe it! could only photograph it -
yes.
good!
there's a small place round the corner.  it's awfully good on christmas day.
yes.  there aren't too many open then.
this way.
round the corner.
thank you.
are you ready to talk about your book?
i'll try to be.
yes.
when your book's published - will you go on working in a library?
i'll come in.
what does your magic camera photograph?
yes?.
what made you think of this story?
i'd like to think.  i was responsible.  in some way.
take 'em!
oh!
there isn't a single face that doesn't look like a child's - not a single one - if you catch it at the right moment.
it would be a challenge!.  unlike anything i've photographed!
everything. but nothing i'd want children to see.
but this would belong to them - and they'd know if it wasn't right.  oh, helen.  i would like to find those faces for you.  with you.
you made a promise to your mother -
you'd better keep it.
that's what i was going to say.  a wonderful evening.
not you!
it never will.  see you!
whatever i photograph -
i always - lose.
well.  i've a little work to do.  then i'll go to bed.  and think of how to find faces for you.
faces which - are faces which.
how did you?
i was never allowed a key, can't get used to them.
i brought her home early.
is there something you.
next door would be more.
visit?
i've no one to talk to.  in the rooms i live over.
it's a changing bag.  we put films in it - so that the light won't spoil them.
like a chair?
you'd know at once -
yes.
it's no good - i was afraid it wouldn't be.
the lights failed too soon.
i'll have to try again.
an opportunity.  now i must find another.
it's almost over.
please let me finish! it's for helen!
she wants to see something i've photographed!
please.  don't be frightened.
yes!
it's late.
you must be tired.
no.  thank you.
run out of film.
i'll never photograph her.  i promise you that.
you'll never have to move.  because of me.  i promise you.
taking my picture?
it's been a long time.  since anyone did.
good night, mrs. stephens.
i'm a focus-puller.
i was wondering if you knew my father - professor lewis.
you know what he was interested in before he died?
i don't remember what he called it.  it was something to do with what causes people to be.  peeping toms.
scopto?
he thought.  it could be cured.
quickly?
yes, doctor.
you've given me.  an idea.
phone - may be my last chance - and.  thanks.
you have it!
can't manage saturday, sir, but they're letting us off early today! this afternoon - after work - may be my last chance!
six o'clock.
i'll be there, sir.
hallo? is that the public library? .  you have a miss helen stephens employed there? yes.  can you tell me if her name is spelt with a v or a ph, i want to send her a tic-ph? .  thank you.
i won't, sir.
right, sir.
sorry, milly.
i shan't be here tomorrow.
i thought so!
i'm just.  completing a documentary.
don't let me see you.  frightened.  leave! hurry, helen!
leave!
now!
no.  i killed them.  and now that you know.  i want you with me.  a while.
you'll be safe - as long as i can't see you frightened - so stand in the shadows, helen.  please.
 please.
 aged five.
 aged seven.
all the rooms were wired for sound.  and.  still are.
your room.
your mother's .
tony's.
not if you're frightened.
no.
can't.
but if you're frightened.
do you know.  what the most frightening thing in the world is?.
it's fear.
so i did something.  very simple.
very simple.
when they felt the spike.  touching their throats.  and knew i was going to kill them.
 i made them - watch their own deaths!
made them see their own terror as the spike went in.  and if death has a face, they saw that too!
not you! not you! i'll never photograph you! i promised - i promised - not you!
i've been ready for this.  for such a long time.
it'll be all right.
i can beat that!
watch them, helen.  watch them say goodbye - one by one - i've timed this.  so often.
i wish.  i could have found your faces for you.
helen - i'm afraid!
i'm glad i'm afraid!