HOLIDAY FILMOGRAPHY PART 2 (1907 - 1913)

A Seaside Girl (1907)

1907:

When the Mistress Took Her Holiday, Alpha Trading Co. (Walturdaw) Directed by Arthur Cooper. Comedy. Servants don absent employers’ clothes and have party

A Sailor’s Lass, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Dolly Lupone, Lewin Fitzhamon. Chase. Bognor

Simpkin’s Saturday Off, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Thurston Harris. Chase. Bognor. Man rides carriage, goat-cart, cycle etc.

The chase around Bognor Regis in A Seaside Girl (1907) - Blair the dog (star of Rescued By Rover, 1905) appears in the final frame here

A Seaside Girl, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: May Clark, Frank Wilson, Thurston Harris. Chase. Bognor

A Tramp’s Dream of Wealth, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Thurston Harris, Gertie Potter. Comedy. Bognor

Dumb Sagacity (1907) - with Blair the dog

Dumb Sagacity (1907)

Dumb Sagacity, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Gertie Potter, Blair the dog. Animal. Bognor

Short-Sighted Jane, Gaumont. Directed by Alf Collins. Chase. Myopic woman collides with people and is chased into sea

A Letter in the Sand, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Dolly Lupone, Thurston Harris. Chase. Bognor

The Artful Lovers, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Thurston Harris, May Clark, Dolly Lupone, Frank Wilson. Comedy. Bognor. Suitor saves girls’ father from drifting bathing machine

Dying of Thirst, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon Adventure. Bognor

The Heavenly Twins, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Thurston Harris, Gertie Potter. Comedy. Bognor

Perserving Edwin, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: May Clark, Thurston Harris. Comedy. Bognor

1908:

A Day’s Holiday, Williamson. Directed by James Williamson. Comedy. Miseries of a family forced to spend holiday at home

Put Pa Amongst The Girls, Gaumont. Directed by Alf Collins. Comedy. seaside. Man flirts with girl and is caught by wife.

A Thoughtless Beauty (aka Forced to Consent), Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Gertie Potter. Comedy. Bognor. Couple tie girl’s father to pier post and marry in boat

A Fascinating Game, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Gertie Potter. Comedy. Bognor

An Unfortunate Bathe, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Gertie Potter. Comedy. Bognor. Girls trick old men by exchanging their clothes

A Visit to the Seaside, Natural Color Kinematograph Co, Directed by G A Smith Comedy. Brighton. Seaside scenes including girl falling in sea from boat and men peeping at bathing girls. (First British colour film).

The Schoolboy’s Revolt, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Bertie Potter, Gertie Potter. Comedy. Bognor. Two boys play pranks with bathing machine, boat etc.

Father’s Holiday, Wrench. Comedy. Misadventures of family man on holiday

1909:

A Seaside Episode, Cricks & Martin, Directed by A E Coleby. Comedy. Bexhill. Man flirts with girls and is caught by wife

1910:

A Night Attack, Empire Films (Butcher). Comedy. Seaside lodgers find fleas in bed

Off For the Holidays (Reissue: 1914), Clarendon. Directed by Percy Stow. Comedy

Looking for Lodgings at the Seaside, Acme (C & M), Directed by Fred Rains. Cast: Fred Rains. Comedy. Family sleep in boat and drift out to sea

His Majesty’s Guests Steal a Holiday, Barker. Produced by Will Barker. Comedy. Convicts overpower warders and have holiday in jail

A Spoilt Child of Fortune, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Drama. Lulworth. Tramp swims to save spoilt girl, cut off by tide

1911:

Tilly at the Seaside, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Alma Taylor, Chrissie White. Comedy

Happy Harold’s Holiday, Walturdaw. Chase

Simpkins’ Dream of a Holiday, Natural Color Kinematograph Co. Directed by (Walter Booth) Theo Bouwmeester. Trick, Clerk dreams of a country holiday and mysterious happenings to his clothes

A Seaside Introduction, Hepworth, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Hay Plumb, Alma Taylor. Comedy. Brighton

Didums and the Bathing Machine, Clarendon, Directed by Wilfred Noy. Comedy. Child exhibits father as Wild Man from Borneo

A Seaside Comedy, Natural Color Kinematograph Co. Directed by Theo Bouwmeester. Comedy

1912:

Didums on His Holidays, Clarendon. Directed by Wilfred Noy. Comedy. Child exchanges labels on Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s bathrooms

A Country Holiday, Directed by Stuart Kinder. Cast: Irene Vernon. Comedy

Brown’s Day Off (Reissue: 1915), Cricks & Martin, Directed by (Edwin J Collins). Comedy. Henpeck has day by sea, where wife takes his photograph

1913:

By the Sea, Selsior. Mercy Manners

Musical. Dance to synchronise with cinema orchestras: Bathing girls interrupted by masher

It’s Best to be Natural, Clarendon, Directed by Percy Stow. Comedy. Southend. Childhood sweethearts meet again and pretend to be still youthful

Bumbles’ Walk to Brighton, Ec-Ko (Univ), Directed by W P Kellino.. Cast: Phillipi. Comedy

What a Holiday! Cricks (C & M), Directed by (Charles Calvert). Comedy. Misadventures of three men on river camping holiday

Her Pony’s Love, Gaumont, Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon. Cast: Constance Somers-Clarke, Fred Urwyne. Animal, Bognor

Bumbles’ Holiday, Ec-Ko, Directed by W P Kellino. Cast: Phillipi. Comedy

Landladies Beware, Martin (C & M), Directed by (Dave Aylott) Comedy. Seaside landlady forced to board tramp for a week

John Willie at Blackpool (Reissue: 1916 Smiffy at Blackpool), Sphinx (Davidson). Comedy

Henpeck’s Holiday, Sphinx, (Davidson). Comedy. Blackpool

The Dustmen’s Holiday, Ec-Ko (Univ), Directed by W P Kellino. Cast: Albert Egbert, Seth Egbert. Comedy. Swansea

By the Sad Sea Waves. Dart (Cosmo). Directed (Stuart Kinder). Comedy. Henpeck has day out while wife is away.




Bibliography:
Gifford, 2001, Catalogue of British Film