Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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...

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly...

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

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 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’...

'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

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

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

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

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The...

A rich man's son loves a nature girl loved by a gypsy who is really her half brother.

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

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

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