Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

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

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...

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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