Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch....

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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...

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

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 policeman is run over by an automobile

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...

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

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

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly...

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

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

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

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