Movies: Cecil M. Hepworth

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

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

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

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 saves child....

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film nevertheless tells a compelling story as a cast of men and boys fight an impending crisis. It's not known whethe...

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’ thriller. When the wealthy Mr Harvey has to go away on a train journey, a couple of sharp-eyed crooks take the oppo...

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

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

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

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the mischievous tramp, the anarchic clown and the hapless bobby - duke it out here in a sketch involving a...

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 time. The River Thames is crowded with pleasure boats as we glide under Henley Bridge. Ladies in white...

A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the crawling creatures thus revealed aren't quite what one might expect....

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities....

An early example of film nostalgia. This lengthy programme put together by filmmaker Cecil Hepworth, largely from films in his own collection, is a look back at history as recorded by the cinematograph. In the industry's early days, films were treate...

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

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

Scenes from the coronation of George V. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion"....

A phantom ride....