as Sharkey Lionel d'Aragon as Dad Preservation As a product of Hepworth Picture Plays, it is thought most likely that prints of Lily of the Alley would have been seized, along with all other film material in the possession of Cecil Hepworth, by administrators called in to wind up the company's affairs when Hepworth was declared bankrupt later in 1924. The film stock was then melted down to release its marketable silver nitrate content and it is presumed that most of the Hepworth company's full-length features of the 1910s and early 1920s were irretrievably lost at this time. No print of Lily of the Alley is held in the British Film Institute's National Archive, although they do possess a number of screenshots from the film on file. A modicum of hope remains that the film may one day surface unexpectedly (as was the case with Hepworth's 1920 feature Helen of Four Gates, rediscovered in a Canadian archive in 2008 after an absence of almost 90 years) and the film's official status is "missing, believed lost". In view of its historical interest, Lily of the Alley is listed as one of the BFI's "75 Most Wanted" missing British feature films. See also List of lost films References External links BFI 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes Progressive Silent Film List: Lily of the Alley at silentera.com 1924 films 1924 drama films British drama films British silent feature films British black-and-white films Films directed by Henry Edwards Films set in London Lost British films Hepworth Pictures films 1924 lost films Lost drama films 1920s British films Silent drama films