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....

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

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.