Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

A rich man's son loves a nature girl loved by a gypsy who is really her half brother.

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

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

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...

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 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...

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A phantom ride.