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....

Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878...

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

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

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

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

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

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

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

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