Cecil M. Hepworth Filmes

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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

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 policeman is run over by an automobile

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

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

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

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

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...

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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

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

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

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