Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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...

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

This picture, taken from Thorneycroft's Yard, shows the two boats about twelve lenghts apart - a state of things owing to terrible weather in which...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 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.

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

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