Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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 troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.

Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 phantom ride.

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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...