Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

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.

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

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

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.

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

This picture, taken from Thorneycroft's Yard, shows the two boats about twelve lenghts apart - a state of things owing to terrible weather in which...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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