Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

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

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

A phantom ride.

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.

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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...

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 is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

Some gossiping women blow the priest’s gift to a little girl out of proportion.

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

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

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

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