Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a...

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

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

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

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

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.

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...

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.

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly...

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

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

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

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...

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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...

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

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