Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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 collection of early British Films from the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Films include: Brighton Seagoing Electric Car (1897), The Inexhaustible Cab...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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

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

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...