Movies: Cecil M. Hepworth

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

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 highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies be...

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

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

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

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....

King of Iran, travel to Europe....

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms from sympathetic passers-by. A policeman gradually approaches from the distance. Feeling suspicious, ...

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

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Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs....

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

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

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

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 feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies....

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

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

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

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

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