Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

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

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

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

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

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

A phantom ride.

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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...

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".

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

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

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

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