Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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 phantom ride.

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

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.

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...

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...

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

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

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

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.

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

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

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile