Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

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.

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

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

'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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

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

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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...

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

A phantom ride.

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

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.