Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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

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

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

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...

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

Some gossiping women blow the priest’s gift to a little girl out of proportion.

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

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878...

A phantom ride.

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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 working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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