Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

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 man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

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

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

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...

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

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

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

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

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...