Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

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

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.

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

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

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

The lacemakers of Honiton, a small town in Devon, who have made bobbin lace since the 16th century.

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

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

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

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

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

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