Early Film Pioneers: Cecil Hepworth: South West Silents

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This programme of early film shorts produced by Cecil Hepworth features live musical accompaniment by Meg Morley and a special recorded introduction by BFI’s curator of silent film Bryony Dixon.

To see the real world in films was a pleasurable thrill for cinema audiences at the beginning of the twentieth century, and, as a result, the production of non-fiction films reached an all-time high, both in terms of quality and quantity. This special season highlighting the work of early film pioneers gives us a rare chance to see those films up on the big screen with live music.

Out of all of the film pioneers featured in this season, Cecil Hepworth (1874-1953) is the longest surviving writer, director and producer within the British film industry which he helped establish. In 1899 he converted a small house in Walton-on-Thames into a…