Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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...

A picturesque portrait of Stratford-on-Avon in the 1920s, evocatively photographed by British cinema pioneer Cecil Hepworth.

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

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

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

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

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

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 man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

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...

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

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

Some gossiping women blow the priest’s gift to a little girl out of proportion.

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

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...

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

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

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.