Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

A cashier gambles and robs a bank, but returns the money for his mother's sake.

A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The...

A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...

A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure...