WATCH THE FIRST EVER CANINE MOVIE STAR ON CN MOVIES’ VINTAGE MOVIE CHANNEL
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The film tells the story of Rover, a remarkable dog who saves a young baby after it is kidnapped (for some unknown reason) by an old gypsy woman. Not only that, but the clever canine manages to bring the miscreants to justice as well. Co-producer and cinematographer Cecil Hepworth, also appears in this great example of early cinema, as the baby's father.

Other Screen Firsts featured on the Vintage Movie Channel include a look at the first jazz movies, comedy films and pop videos, the first dramatic and character animations, the first movie portraying a criminal – ‘The Life of Charles Peace’ (1905), and the first Tarzan film - Tarfoot of the Apes (1918).

Other features on the Vintage Movie Channel include: Hollywood Greats & Bloopers – with early footage from Hollywood stars such as Abbott and Costello, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan; Cartooons & Cliffhanger Specials - starting with the original 1941 Superman animated cartoons produced by Dave and Max Fleischer; rare Silent Classics from the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton and Rudolph Valentino; and Themed Vintage Feature Movies, including Robert Weine's 1919 classic 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' and Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse (1922).

Notes for Editors:

Streaming content featured on the Vintage Movie Channel is part of the EPA International Multimedia catalogue, whose archive of more than 600 hours of true cinematic treasures from early cinema includes: out of copyright feature films; nostalgic documentaries; 1930s travelogues; jazz films; and soundies. For further information e-mail: epa@coppernob.net.

CN Movies covers a majority of films produced between 1895 and the present, and is recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest and most comprehensive database on movies. The database holds information on over 321,000 movies, plus information on cinema history, ‘movie talk’ and film techniques, together with a guide to award winners, and a-z listings for actors, producers and writers.

coppernob.com is a multi-media digital publisher with extensive on-line interests in arts and entertainment and is the UK's leading Microsoft Windows Media global content partner. The network currently receives monthly visits in excess of 500,000, spending an average time of over 15 minutes on the sites.

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