Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

A professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.

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

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

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

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

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

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