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.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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...

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms...

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

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

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

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

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...

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

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

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

This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.

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...