Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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’...

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

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

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.

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

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

Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and...

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.