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Hepworth Film
Manufacturing Company
 
Type of Company Production and distribution company
Country of Origination England
Years of Operation 1898 through 1919
Company Principals Cecil M. Hepworth
H.V. Lawley, partner (through 1904)
Company Offices Walton-on-Thames, England
15 and 17 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, London, WC, England
Company Studios unknown

Hepworth Film Manufacturing Company had a business partner, H.V. Lawley, with whom Hepworth split in 1904. The company name listed as “The Hepworth Manufacturing Company Ltd.” on a poster for the Vivaphone synchronized sound system, with the address as 15 and 17 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, London, WC.

The company became Hepworth Picture Plays in 1919.

References: Sinyard-Silent p. 180.

 
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