In early October a group of brave (and quite possible foolhardy) Liberal chessers attended an event known as ‘Chessboxing’. Your Editorial Committee had no clue as to what this ‘Chessboxing’ was nor whether it was a suitably Liberal form of entertainment.
Indeed, the longer serving members of the Committee recoiled in some horror at the thought of venturing out amongst the general populace – and especially as it entailed taking a hansom cab to far reaches of Tufnell Park (a place one should never visit without one’s firearm).
So the Committee instead retired to the NLC bar, ordered another bottle of port, and dispatched the office boy to attend the evening and provide a report. An opportunity to him to prove his journalistic worth, and for us to provide to our readership an account of this strange and slightly unnerving so-called ‘sport’.
Being rather the young whipper-snapper and enamoured with all the newest fads, he insisted on filing his report in the wholly new medium of moving ‘cinefilm’ – a sort of series of moving lithographs, if you will, paired with an associated grammaphone recording.
The Editorial Committee has heard of such things, but looks rather askance at these so called modern innovations. We doubt that this ‘cinefilm’ business will catch on, but we leave that to the judgement of our readers.
With those caveats in mind, we here present his report of the evenings proceedings:
That is indeed a most excellent report on the fistycuffs from our young reporter. I very much doubt, however, that this new cinefilm medium will catch on.