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Dedicated to the life and work of Pioneer of British Cinema Cecil Milton Hepworth: Cinematographer, Actor, Producer, Director, Inventor, Innovator, who lived and worked in Walton on Thames, Surrey, England from 1896 to 1924.
Dedicated to the life and work of Pioneer of British Cinema Cecil Milton Hepworth: Cinematographer, Actor, Producer, Director, Inventor, Innovator, who lived and worked in Walton on Thames, Surrey, England from 1896 to 1924. Filmmaker, inventor and author Cecil M. Hepworth was a pioneer of early pre-WWI British cinema. He survived in the film business longer than any other British pioneer film-maker. In the course of his career, Hepworth became one of the most respected, if not the most dynamic, figures in British cinema. Hepworth set up a laboratory in Hurst Grove, Walton on Thames in 1899 and by 1900 he was releasing a hundred films a year. He was primarily a producer more than an actual film-maker but did on occasion, write, direct, edit, photograph and star in many films, however many of the films credited to him were in fact the work of his associated Percy Slow and Lewin Fitzhamon, the latter co-directed perhaps Hepworth's most celebrated work 'Rescued by Rover' (1905) as well as other inventive comic films such as 'The Other Side of the Hedge'(1905) and 'That Fatal Sneeze' (1907).
Cecil Hepworth was a fascinating man, an innovator, actor, inventor, director, businessman who inspired loyalty from all who worked with him during the early days of film before WWI, the Roaring Twenties, Charlie Chaplin and the rise of Hollywood changed the national identity of England forever.
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