| 词条 | Cecil Hepworth |
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| image =File:Cecil M. Hepworth 1915.jpg | imagesize = | name = Cecil Hepworth | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1874|3|19|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lambeth,[1] England | death_date = {{death date and age|1953|2|9|1874|3|19|df=yes}} | death_place = Greenford, Middlesex, England | othername = | occupation = Film director, film producer | years_active= 1896–1926 }} 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 Walton Studios. In 1923 his company went into receivership. HistoryHepworth was born in Lambeth, in present-day South London. His father, Thomas Cradock Hepworth, was a famous magic lantern showman and author. Cecil Hepworth became involved in the early stages of British filmmaking, working for both Birt Acres and Charles Urban, and wrote the first British book on the subject in 1897. With his cousin Monty Wicks he set up the production company Hepworth and Co. (also known as "Hepwix" after the word mark in its trade logo), which was later renamed the Hepworth Manufacturing Company (officially: Hepworth Film Manufacturing Company), and then Hepworth Picture Plays. In 1899 they built a small film studio in Walton-on-Thames, Hepworth Studios. The company produced about three films a week, sometimes with Hepworth directing. Rescued by Rover (1905), co-directed with Lewin Fitzhamon and starring a collie in the title role, was a huge financial success. The film is now regarded as an important development in film grammar, with shots being effectively combined to emphasize the action. Hepworth was also one of the first to recognize the potential of film stars, both animal and human, with several recurring characters appearing in his films. By 1910, Hepworth was also the inventor of Vivaphone, an early sound on disk system for adding sound to motion pictures. The device used phonograph records to record and play back the sound. Hepworth's vivaphone was distributed in Britain and also in the United States and Canada.[2][3] The company continued making popular films into the 1920s, despite Hepworth's now unchanging and increasingly old-fashioned film style. Boosted by the international success of Alf's Button (1919), the company went public to fund a large studio development. He failed to raise the necessary capital and, also suffering the box office failure of Comin' Thro the Rye (1923), the company went into receivership the next year. All of the original film negatives in Hepworth's possession were melted down by the receiver in order to sell the silver, and his feature films have been considered lost for many decades. However, an original 35mm. print of his 1920 film Helen of Four Gates was located in a film archive in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2008.[4] {{clear|left}}Selected filmography{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
Notes1. ^Cecil Hepworth at Screenonline 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.john-goodwin.com/hepworth/vivaphone.htm|title=Vivaphone|publisher=John Goodwin|accessdate=20 August 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821033815/http://www.john-goodwin.com/hepworth/vivaphone.htm|archivedate=21 August 2014|df=dmy-all}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/info/technology/synchSound/vivaphone.html|title=Hepworth Vivaphone|publisher=silentera.com|accessdate=20 August 2014}} 4. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/31/helen-of-four-gates-film "Helen of Four Gates to get screening after 80-year hiatus"] The Guardian, 31-05-2010. Retrieved 26-08-2010. References
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