Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a...

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’...

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

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.

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

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.

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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...

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

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

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.