Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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

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.

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

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...

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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