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....

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.

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

A rich man's son loves a nature girl loved by a gypsy who is really her half brother.

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

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

'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.