Came the dawn : memories of a film pioneer (1951)

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PLATES After page Frontispiece: Portrait of Cecil Hepworth The old Polytechnic: The Royal Polytechnic Institution, about 1880, showing the diving bell, extreme left, and 'Wheel of Life' in the Gallery 24 At Algiers I filmed the solar eclipse of May, 1900 24 Early 'news-reel': Queen Victoria's Funeral, 1901. King Edward VII, hearing the camera, stops the cortege 24 'Rover,' 'Hepworth Picture Player,' hero of Rescued by Rover, with the 'rescued,' 1905 24 Alma Taylor and Henry Ainley in Iris 56 Violet Hopson and Henry Ainley in The Outrage 56 Mary Brough, Frank Stanmore, and (front) Henry Edwards, Chrissie White in Simple Simon, 1915 56 Alma Taylor in Tansy 56 Alma Taylor in The Forest on the Hill 64 John MacAndrews and James Garew in Helen of Four Gates 64 Alma Taylor playing two parts in Anna the Adventuress 80 Gerald Ames and James Carew in Mr. Justice Raffles 80 The Funeral of King Edward VII at Windsor 104 In readiness for Hamlet, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Lady Forbes-Robertson, and on left: Geoffrey Faithfull, Cecil Hepworth; on right: Hay Plumb, Bill Saunders 104 The 1 91 3 Hamlet played at Walton Studios and Lulworth Cove 1 04