Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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 policeman is run over by an automobile

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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

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

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...

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...

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

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

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

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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 phantom ride.

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

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 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.