Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

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

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...

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 girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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