:20:04
Watson this microscope
:20:06
was last used for
examining microfilm.
:20:09
I'm beginning to
see the pattern.
:20:11
It stopped now.
:20:13
Did you know
that the letters
:20:14
of our soldiers overseas
:20:15
are being
photographed on microfilm
:20:17
so that one carrier pigeon
:20:18
can carry the equivalent
of 18,000 letters?
:20:20
Oh really?
:20:21
We had a carrier
pigeon in the last war.
:20:23
Back in 1915 belonging to
the Brigade Signal Corp.
:20:25
Did you?
:20:26
Yeah, the poor bird kept
flying round and round
:20:29
in circles all day long.
:20:30
Found out later on
that it was cross-eyed.
:20:32
Tragic thing.
:20:35
Where are you going, huh?
:20:40
Oh dark room huh?
:20:43
This is what I
was looking for.
:20:45
This projector magnifies
tremendously
:20:47
anything placed
on the slide
:20:49
like this piece
of microfilm.
:20:55
Understand?
:20:56
Can't say I do
exactly, no.
:20:57
Wait a minute.
:21:00
I'll show you one
of his photographs.
:21:06
Well it's that
match folder.
:21:08
Why did he want to
photograph that for?
:21:09
Probably to line
up his equipment
:21:11
before he photographed
the document.
:21:14
We got him Watson.
:21:15
Oh have we?
:21:16
Yes.
:21:17
Come along.
:21:18
All is clear as mud to me.
:21:21
Just as I thought,
:21:22
this document has been
reduced to microfilm
:21:24
to make its
concealment possible.
:21:26
Alfred Pettibone is a
most ingenious fellow.
:21:28
A bulky document
:21:30
is obviously
difficult to conceal
:21:31
but two pages
of a state paper,
:21:33
photographed
on microfilm,
:21:34
would be reduced to a size
:21:36
no larger than a stamp.
:21:38
Slitting a match
folder with this...
:21:41
with this razor blade...
:21:46
Pettibone placed the now
minute document inside,
:21:48
stuck it together again
:21:49
and there he had it.
:21:50
An American match folder,
rare in London
:21:52
but completely
inconspicuous in
the United States.
:21:54
Do you mean to say
were off to America
:21:55
just to look for
a match folder?
:21:57
It's a big country.
:21:58
A big country Watson