Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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

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

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

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

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

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

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

A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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 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’...

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...

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

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

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

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