Lewin Fitzhamon
Directing
Biography
Lewin "Fitz" Fitzhamon (5 June 1869 – 10 October 1961) was a British filmmaker, who worked as Cecil Hepworth's principal director in the early decades of the twentieth century. His best-known film is Rescued by Rover (1905). Other directing credits include An Englishman Trip to Paris from London (1904), That Fatal Sneeze (1907), The Man and his Bottle (1908) and A New Hat for Nothing (1910). In total, he directed around 400 films.
Known For
A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The chase continues onto the surface. The professor meets a group of prehistoric women, who flee when other monsters appear. The professor's wife finds him sleeping in the laboratory, surrounded by fossils, and wakes him with water from a siphon. This short film is only viewable at the BFI, and its generally believed to be the first film depiction of dinosaurs, here accomplished through the use of simple pantomime costumes.
Prehistoric Peeps
As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy retaliates by sneaking into the older man's room and putting pepper in his handkerchief, hairbrush, and clothing. But things quickly get out of hand when the sneezing that results begins to disrupt the whole town.
That Fatal Sneeze
A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
Rescued by Rover
A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.
The Doll's Revenge
Tomboys play tricks on their uncle when he flirts with a maid.
When Tilly's Uncle Flirted
Some gossiping women exaggerate the priest’s gift to a little girl.
What the Curate Really Did
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The Heart of a Fishergirl
Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.
The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper
Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.
Tilly and the Fire Engines
Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor
The pursuit of a highwayman taking a message to a knight (First British one-reel feature).
Dick Turpin's Ride to York
A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.
Invisibility
Three suitors try to impress a girl by chasing her all over the place. Finally she makes her choice.
A Seaside Girl
A young woman is abducted and forced to beg from passers-by.
Lost, Stolen or Strayed
Biopic about the composer.
Georges Bizet
An Englishman travel's abroad
A Trip to Paris
Two young men help two girls escape.
Tilly's Party
'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)
A Seaside Introduction
Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.
The Other Side of the Hedge
A boy and his dog trail a gypsy who kidnapped his sister.