Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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".

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - 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.

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

This picture, taken from Thorneycroft's Yard, shows the two boats about twelve lenghts apart - a state of things owing to terrible weather in which...

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

A phantom ride.

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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

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