Hepworth Publicity

This page contains publicity material from the Hepworth film studios, including house magazines, photos and other movie memorabilia.

The Hepworth Studios produced a wealth of publicity material, including:

• Picture postcards of the stars,
• Posters and other advertising material,
• Magazines ("Hepworth Picture Player", and later on, "The Hepworth Magazine"),
• Magazine articles, and much more movie memorabilia.

"Pictures and Picturegoer" was a general publication, not specifically linked to the studios, but it carried a great deal of information about Hepworth productions.

We are developing galleries of this material - please contact us if you can help with the project!

The Postcards

Picture postcards were used to promote Hepworth film stars, and were one of the first promotion devices of this type. They were affordable and provided a way for the general public to send messages whist promoting the studios, films and stars. Perhaps this was one of the earlier forms of viral advertising!

The Posters

We don't have many examples of these yet. Can you help?

The Magazines

We are progressively increasing our catalogue of copies of these magazines with the intention of making them available to visitors to this website. If you can help with this project please contact us.

Pictures and Picturegoer

Such was the interest in films that this was a weekly publication. Due to wartime constrains many copies were printed on thin, poor quality paper and some of the images suffer as a result.

A similar publication called "Pictures" emerged and we have a copy from 1917. Was it the same publication, renamed, or a competitor?

Hepworth Picture Player aka "Hepworth Picture-Play Paper"

The Hepworth Studio had a house magazine, "Hepworth Picture-Play Paper" (price 1d.) which ran monthly for many years. Each copy provided a fascinating cameo of a star, and more. Dr. Nicholas Hiley has provided some scans of the front pages- thanks!  I hope they are out of copyright by now! Browsable PDF copies will appear here as soon as I can locate more material.

We hope to bring further samples of this magazine soon.
Please contact us if you would like to add to this gallery.

The Hepworth Magazine

The Hepworth Magazine was a substantial publication with high production values. As well as promotional material, it contained commentaries from famous people, articles on the state of the film industry, and product advertising. Cecil Hepworth was the editor and a frequent contributor.

Exeter University has some copies too.

We hope to bring further samples of this magazine soon.
Please contact us if you would like to add to this gallery.