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.

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

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...

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

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

A dramatic scene - and exactly what moving pictures were invented for. With a fixed camera and without a traditional narrative, this film...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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

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...

Early footage of Queen Victoria’s funeral.

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a...

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

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

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