Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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 soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

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

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A phantom ride.