Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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

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

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

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

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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