Hepworth Manufacturing Company

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.

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 monsters appear. The professor's wife finds him sleeping in the laboratory, surrounded by fossils, and wakes him with water from a siphon. This short film is only viewable at the BFI, and its generally believed to be the first film depiction of dinosaurs, here accomplished through the use of simple pantomime costumes.

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

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

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

A countryman buys a stubborn donkey and has trouble.

A drunkard has a vision of everything turning into bottles.

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.