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....

Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham.

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 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’...

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

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.

A poet struggles to get her work accepted.

A woman disapproves of her stepson's love for a girl who goes mad when her drunken father dies in a landslide.