Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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’...

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...

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...

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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

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

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

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 man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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

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...

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

A phantom ride.

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.