ABSTRACT
Hepworth continued to experiment, perfecting many of the principles of modern film projection, and inventing a system of rapid automatic developing and processing of film stock which was far ahead of its time. The Warwick Company, like its rival film trading houses in ‘Flicker Alley’, was a firm which made, bought, and sold moving pictures—by the foot. Most of the early Walton dramas would appear dated to modern audiences; but not one of Hepworth’s films, either drama or comedy, was ever crudely made, nor was it poorly photographed. It was just twenty years after Rescued by Rover that the Walton studios—now often referred to as the cradle of British film production—were sold up, and the pioneer was forced out of business. For a decade Hepworth Picture Plays were the most popular of British films. Charmingly English, each picture frame was in itself an artistic study designed to delight the eye.
