Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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...

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

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

An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a...

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

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

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

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

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

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

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are...

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

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

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

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

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

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

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

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

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...