Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

Actuality film documenting the funeral of Queen Victoria in February 1901. The footage captures the solemn processions and ceremonies that marked the...

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.

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

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...

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

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

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

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

An early example of film nostalgia. This lengthy programme put together by filmmaker Cecil Hepworth, largely from films in his own collection, is a...

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

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...

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

A cashier gambles and robs a bank, but returns the money for his mother's sake.