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

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

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

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 Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

A phantom ride.