Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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...

A picturesque portrait of Stratford-on-Avon in the 1920s, evocatively photographed by British cinema pioneer Cecil Hepworth.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

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 mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are...

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

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

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

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

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch....

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)

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