Cecil M. Hepworth

Cecil M. Hepworth

Nacimiento : 1873-03-19, Lewisham, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1953-02-09

Historia

Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Hepworth Studios. His works include Alice in Wonderland (1903), the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Perfil

Cecil M. Hepworth
Cecil M. Hepworth

Películas

The House of Marney
Director
An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.
The Coveted Coat
Producer
A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.
Comin' Thro the Rye
Director
A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.
Mist in the Valley
Producer
An ex-nun weds an amnesia victim and is framed for killing her usurping uncle who posed as her father.
Mist in the Valley
Director
An ex-nun weds an amnesia victim and is framed for killing her usurping uncle who posed as her father.
Little Red Riding Hood
Producer
Anson Dyer's animation made for Hepworth Picture.
Through Three Reigns
Director
An early example of film nostalgia. This lengthy programme put together by filmmaker Cecil Hepworth, largely from films in his own collection, is a look back at history as recorded by the cinematograph. In the industry's early days, films were treated as commodities that were used until their disintegration. If a film was particularly popular it might well be re-staged and re-shot, rather than duplicated. The standardisation of copyrighting practices early in the 20th century stemmed this practice, and gave rise to the primacy of the original film. Compilations such as this sometimes prove to be the means by which otherwise lost films manage to survive. This is the case with Hepworth's 'Musical Ride by Ladies' (1899), which features early in the first reel but did not survive in any other form.
A Day with the Gipsies
Producer
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
Tansy
Director
'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)
Dollars in Surrey
Producer
Helen of Four Gates
Producer
HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was discovered in a vault in Canada.
Helen of Four Gates
Director
HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was discovered in a vault in Canada.
Alf's Button
Director
A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.
Anna the Adventuress
Producer
Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.
Anna the Adventuress
Director
Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.
Broken in the Wars
Director
'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Leopard's Spots
Director
British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.
Annie Laurie
Producer
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
Annie Laurie
Director
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
Comin' Thro' the Rye
Director
A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.
Sweet Lavender
Director
A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.
The Outrage
Director
A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.
The Midnight Mail
Producer
A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’ thriller. When the wealthy Mr Harvey has to go away on a train journey, a couple of sharp-eyed crooks take the opportunity to burgle his home. Only the live-in maid stands between them and Harvey’s safe. Can our plucky heroine save the day?
The Basilisk
Director of Photography
A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.
The Basilisk
Writer
A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.
The Basilisk
Director
A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.
The Magic Glass
Producer
A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.
The Book
Producer
A cashier gambles and robs a bank, but returns the money for his mother's sake.
Coronation of George V
Director
Scenes from the coronation of George V. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".
Coronation of George V
Producer
Scenes from the coronation of George V. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".
Are We Down-Hearted?
Producer
Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.
Burnham Beeches
Director
This is the first film of Burnham Beeches, famous beauty spot and ultimate film location. Cecil Hepworth's 1909 film is the first of many taken in this tract of ancient woodland. The proximity to film studios - Pinewood, Shepperton and Bray - make this a favoured spot for filming. But before the studios were there, the Hepworth Company produced this extraordinary 'stereo scenic' - intended as a filmic equivalent of Victorian stereo cards. This is one of a series of tourist attractions filmed by Gaston Quiribet in a long panning shot from a car, to suggest the glorious photography and aesthetic experience of stereoscopy. -BFI
The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper
The Kidnapper
Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.
The Doll's Revenge
Producer
A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.
The Doll's Revenge
Director
A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.
Rescued by Rover
Harassed father
A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
Rescued by Rover
Director
A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
The Bewitched Traveller
Director
A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.
A Day in the Hayfields
Director
Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.
Firemen to the Rescue
Director
Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and saves child.
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
Director of Photography
Esta es la primera versión cinematográfica de la famosa historia. Alice duerme en un jardín, despertada por un conejo blanco vacilante con chaleco y reloj de bolsillo. Ella lo sigue por un agujero y se encuentra en un pasillo de muchas puertas.
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
Producer
Esta es la primera versión cinematográfica de la famosa historia. Alice duerme en un jardín, despertada por un conejo blanco vacilante con chaleco y reloj de bolsillo. Ella lo sigue por un agujero y se encuentra en un pasillo de muchas puertas.
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
Frog
Esta es la primera versión cinematográfica de la famosa historia. Alice duerme en un jardín, despertada por un conejo blanco vacilante con chaleco y reloj de bolsillo. Ella lo sigue por un agujero y se encuentra en un pasillo de muchas puertas.
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
Writer
Esta es la primera versión cinematográfica de la famosa historia. Alice duerme en un jardín, despertada por un conejo blanco vacilante con chaleco y reloj de bolsillo. Ella lo sigue por un agujero y se encuentra en un pasillo de muchas puertas.
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
Director
Esta es la primera versión cinematográfica de la famosa historia. Alice duerme en un jardín, despertada por un conejo blanco vacilante con chaleco y reloj de bolsillo. Ella lo sigue por un agujero y se encuentra en un pasillo de muchas puertas.
The Unclean World
Professor
A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the crawling creatures thus revealed aren't quite what one might expect.
The Unclean World
Writer
A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the crawling creatures thus revealed aren't quite what one might expect.
Peace with Honour
Director
Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.
Arrival of the Shah in London
Producer
King of Iran, travel to Europe.
Arrival of the Shah in London
Director
King of Iran, travel to Europe.
How to Stop a Motorcar
A policeman is run over by an automobile
The Beggar's Deceit
Director
A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms from sympathetic passers-by. A policeman gradually approaches from the distance. Feeling suspicious, he taps the beggar on the shoulder, whereupon the beggar leaps up in a panic and runs away on his perfectly functional legs. The policeman trips over the trolley before recovering his footing and setting off in pursuit.
The Bathers
Producer
TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies.
The Bathers
Bather
TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies.
The Bathers
Director
TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies.
Explosion of a Motor Car
Driver
An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.
Explosion of a Motor Car
Director
An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.
How It Feels to Be Run Over
Driver
As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave frantically, but can a collision be avoided?
How It Feels to Be Run Over
Director
As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave frantically, but can a collision be avoided?
The Burning Barn
Director
Directed by Cecil M. Hepworth.
Clown and Police
Director
A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the mischievous tramp, the anarchic clown and the hapless bobby - duke it out here in a sketch involving an exploding gunpowder barrel. Plenty of camera tricks help the characters appear and disappear at just the right moments. Made by Hepworth & Co., this film was presumably a welcome relief to audiences tiring of bad news from the Boer War; Hepworth’s own catalogue for 1900 contained a great deal of footage from South Africa.
Queen Victoria's Visit to Dublin
Producer
Thames River Scenery - Panorama of the Crowded River
Director
Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure time. The River Thames is crowded with pleasure boats as we glide under Henley Bridge. Ladies in white lace dresses recline under parasols as gentlemen with impressive moustaches take the oars. But even in this antiquated idyllic scene, advertising hoardings on the riverbank try to persuade the moneyed classes to part with their cash. The technique of placing the camera on a moving vehicle, here a boat, was one of the most popular film effects in the very early cinema period. The waterside panorama method employed here was particularly popular for travelogues. Cecil Hepworth, who made this film, was convinced at the time that the cinema would prove to be used mostly for news reporting, but said that work such as this "showed some slight perception of scenic value". That makes this almost an early art film. -BFI
Floral Parade of Lady Cyclists
Writer
This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.
Floral Parade of Lady Cyclists
Director
This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.
Funeral of Queen Victoria
Director
Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.