Movies: Cecil M. Hepworth

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. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors....

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 Tunnel is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. It is in fact, two films in one, hence 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 automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave fran...

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....

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 popular brand of indigestion powder....

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 altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent....

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....

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew........

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....

A policeman is run over by an automobile...

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms from sympathetic passers-by. A policeman gradually approaches from the distance. Feeling suspicious, ...

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The chase continues onto the surface. The professor meets a group of prehistoric women, who flee when other ...

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

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 highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies be...

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

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

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral....