Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

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

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...

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

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

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...

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

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

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

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

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

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

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

A phantom ride.