Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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...

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....

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.

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

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...

A policeman is run over by an automobile

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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

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 mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are...

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

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...

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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

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.

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

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