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...

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

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.

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 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 uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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