So, Life on the Mississippi was the first of four or five Mark Twain movies that I made. The following year I made a film called The Private History of a Campaign That Failed. And it's about an episode in the Civil War where a young group of volunteers gets together to fight the coming Yankees. It's a very charming story, very charming film. We had a very good cast. A small group of boys who were excellent, really excellent, and an American actor whose name, unfortunately, I can't remember. He played the colonel in whose service they volunteer. There was one of those lines that I've been speaking about before, which becomes characteristic, and we quoted each other long afterwards, we quoted this, sort of, line. In that line, as he introduces himself to the boys, he explains why he limps, and he says, 'I got this ball in my leg. I got this ball in my leg'. And we were always saying, 'I got this ball in my leg'. Anyway, that was shot in two places, in Pennsylvania and in Upstate New York, in a place called Oneonta.

In Pennsylvania we found an iron village... iron smelting village which had been preserved as a, sort of, outdoor museum. We used that, which we also used on the next film. We also found another sort of... one of these outdoor museums, which exist in America, quite a few. And we used that, and then we moved to Oneonta and the bulk of the film, bulk of that film is shot in Oneonta. Then it has a coda afterwards. It's not... Not only is it called The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, which is quite a mouthful, but then it also... it says, and The War Prayer, because it has a sort of coda at the end which is called The War Prayer, which is shot in a church where Mark Twain's views about war and warfare are made plain. And they were quite strong. He was quite a strong pacifist.