Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878...

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

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

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are...

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

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

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

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 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’...

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

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

Some gossiping women exaggerate the priest’s gift to a little girl.

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

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

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

Actuality film documenting the funeral of Queen Victoria in February 1901. The footage captures the solemn processions and ceremonies that marked the...

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

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.

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

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.