Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

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

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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

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

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

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

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...

This picture, taken from Thorneycroft's Yard, shows the two boats about twelve lenghts apart - a state of things owing to terrible weather in which...

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

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.