Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

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

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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

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...