Cecil M. Hepworth Movies

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

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...

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...

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 inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a...

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

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.

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

Some gossiping women blow the priest’s gift to a little girl out of proportion.

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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

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

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

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

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

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