Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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...

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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...

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

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".

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

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.

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...

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