Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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...

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.

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

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.

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

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

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

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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

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.