Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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.

Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.

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.