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....

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

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

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

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

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

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

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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.