Alfred Inglethorpe joined the film business in 1907, working for the Hepworth Manufacturing Company as an electrician. Inglethorpe claimed to be the inventor of ‘the Ingle advertising machine,' and also of the Cinephone sound system, the rights to which were obtained by Barker [qv] and William Jeapes [qv] for the Warwick Trading Company in 1908. Inglethorpe left Hepworth to join Gaumont, being appointed to the company’s Newcastle branch as cameraman, probably when Gordon [qv] left Gaumont in 1912. As one writer noted that year, the Gaumont Graphic was based in London but it now worked through ‘branch offices at Newcastle - which covers the north-east of England - at Glasgow for Scotland, and at Liverpool and Manchester for the north-west of England, the Liverpool operators being ready to proceed to Ireland or the Isle of Man should the necessity arise.' As with Gordon, Inglethorpe would have taken local topicals as well as acting as the regional cameraman for the Gaumont Graphic. However, in 1914 Inglethorpe returned to Gaumont’s London branch, and was probably succeeded in Newcastle by Dorman [qv]. He was still with Gaumont in 1920, but a cameraman named Inglethorpe was later credited in the team that filmed ‘THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH’ for Pathe Super Sound Gazette No.37/38 in May 1937.
Sources
F. A. Talbot ‘Moving Pictures: How they are made and worked’ (1912), p.280: Kine Year Book 1921, p.592, ‘Alfred Edward Inglethorpe’.