Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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 cashier gambles and robs a bank, but returns the money for his mother's sake.

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

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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 man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.

The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

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

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

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 man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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...

Scenes from the coronation of George V. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

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