Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

A Victorian vaudeville routine is given the big screen treatment with camera tricks galore.Three characters straight off the vaudeville stage - the...

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alec Worcester

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....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: May Clark

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....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: May Clark

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blair

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Cast: Henry Edwards

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cecil M. Hepworth

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: May Clark

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

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Gertie Potter

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Gertie Potter

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

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Cast: Henry Ainley

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

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A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.

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Cast: Alma Taylor

The lacemakers of Honiton, a small town in Devon, who have made bobbin lace since the 16th century.

Genre: Documentary

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A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cecil M. Hepworth

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alma Taylor

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

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Cast: John MacAndrews

An early example of film nostalgia. This lengthy programme put together by filmmaker Cecil Hepworth, largely from films in his own collection, is a...

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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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tom Powers

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chrissie White

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alma Taylor

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

Genre: Animation

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

Genre: Animation

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alma Taylor

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alma Taylor

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

Genre: Romance

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Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

Genre: War

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Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and...

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reginald Sheffield

A phantom ride.

Genre: Documentary

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A phantom ride.

Genre: Documentary

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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...

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A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

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

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Cast: Alma Taylor

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Worth

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sebastian Smith

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura Bayley

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura Bayley

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

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

Genre: Comedy

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King of Iran, travel to Europe.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mozaffar Ad-Din Shah Qajar

King of Iran, travel to Europe.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mozaffar Ad-Din Shah Qajar

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

Genre: Documentary

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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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chrissie White

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Hay Plumb

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure...

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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....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: May Clark

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tom Powers

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tom Powers

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

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’...

Genre: Crime

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TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...

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Cast: Cecil M. Hepworth

TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water...

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Cast: 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....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: May Clark

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

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

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

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

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