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.

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...

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

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

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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

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

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

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...

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 man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

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...

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

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

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

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