Movies: Hepworth Manufacturing Company

Actuality film documenting the funeral of Queen Victoria in February 1901. The footage captures the solemn processions and ceremonies that marked the end of her long reign, offering a rare moving-image record of a major state occasion. Widely circula...

A newspaper brought to life....

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

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 girl on her lap before submerging the unsuspecting infant into a tub of soapy water. The baby is surpr...

A drunkard has a vision of everything turning into bottles....

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

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs....

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 countryman buys a stubborn donkey and has trouble....

A man plays a trick to gain a woman's affection....

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms from sympathetic passers-by. A policeman gradually approaches from the distance. Feeling suspicious, ...

A young woman is abducted and forced to beg from passers-by....

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 chase continues onto the surface. The professor meets a group of prehistoric women, who flee when other ...

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Footage of Edward VII in the funeral procession of his mother, Queen Victoria....

A tour of central London locations, including Whitehall and Trafalgar Square. An important document for Edwardian London....

Film of Edward VII's coronation. Appears on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion"....

Early 20th century film footage of Japan....

Early 20th century film footage of Japan....

Film of a royal visit to Ireland, by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Appears on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion"...