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Cecil M. Hepworth
Pioneering British filmmaker who patented several inventions and published one of the first books on film, "Animated Photography, or the ABC of the Cinematograph" (1897). Hepworth set up a studio and laboratory and made several documentaries as well as the remarkably advanced narrative short, "Rescued by Rover" (1905). He was a major figure in British cinema until the end of WWI, primarily as a producer.
