Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

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.

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.

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 buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

A collection of early British Films from the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Films include: Brighton Seagoing Electric Car (1897), The Inexhaustible Cab...

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

A phantom ride.

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