Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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 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.

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

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

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

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 boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

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

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

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 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 professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.

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

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

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.