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.

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.

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

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

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...

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

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

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 policeman is run over by an automobile

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

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

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

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

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

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