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. She...

As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy ret...

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 automobile...

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.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old...

An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their...

A girl's beau poses as a burglar to fool her boastful father.

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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

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

A Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur.

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 altered wit...

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

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

A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.

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 poet struggles to get her work accepted.