Hay Plumb

Cheer Boys Cheer

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Let's Be Famous

An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.

Strange Boarders

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.

Things Are Looking Up

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

Car of Dreams

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day that she would love a Rolls-Royce, Robert makes sure that she gets one. Then he decides to raise her salary out of all proportion to hint at who he is...

The Blue Squadron

Anglo Italian aviation drama. Now lost.

The Midshipmaid

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.

Deadlock

A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.

Heart of Midlothian

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

A Fisherman's Love Story

Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon.

A Seaside Introduction

'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)

A Burglar for One Night

'An unemployed labourer is driven to burglary when he is unable to find work.' (British Film Institute)

Harry the Footballer

A star player is kidnapped by the opposition. However, they are foiled by his girl-friend, just in time for him to get to the match and score the winning goal.

Tilly's Party

Two young men help two girls escape.

Are We Down-Hearted?

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

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.