Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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

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

George Grossmith and Edmund Payne were two of the biggest stars of the London stage in the early twentieth century. On 21 March 1911, they recorded...

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

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 professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

Nothing to do with potties... Baby gets a good wash. In this charming Hepworth actuality film, a crisply uniformed, no-nonsense nurse bounces a baby...

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

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’...

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

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

Actuality film documenting the funeral of Queen Victoria in February 1901. The footage captures the solemn processions and ceremonies that marked the...

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

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

Some gossiping women exaggerate the priest’s gift to a little girl.