Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

A phantom ride.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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...

George Grossmith and Edmund Payne were two of the biggest stars of the London stage in the early twentieth century. On 21 March 1911, they recorded...

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

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...

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