Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

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 working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

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

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

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

A phantom ride.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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...

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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

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

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The...