Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

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

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

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

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

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

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

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

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

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.