Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The...

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.

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

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

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

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...

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a...

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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...

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...

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

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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