Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

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

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

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

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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

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.

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

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.

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...

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

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

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

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