Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A phantom ride.

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...

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

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

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are...

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

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

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

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...

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

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

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

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

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

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

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