Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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.

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

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

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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.