Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the...

Nothing to do with potties... Baby gets a good wash. In this charming Hepworth actuality film a crisply uniformed, no-nonsense nurse bounces a baby...

A rich man's son loves a nature girl loved by a gypsy who is really her half brother.

Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and...

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

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 schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

The lacemakers of Honiton, a small town in Devon, who have made bobbin lace since the 16th century.

An early example of film nostalgia. This lengthy programme put together by filmmaker Cecil Hepworth, largely from films in his own collection, is a...

Scenes from the coronation of George V. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

A phantom ride.

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.