Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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...

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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

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

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

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

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

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

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.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

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

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’...

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

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