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.

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile

A picturesque portrait of Stratford-on-Avon in the 1920s, evocatively photographed by British cinema pioneer Cecil Hepworth.

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

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

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