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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

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

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 professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the...

A policeman is run over by an automobile