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....

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.

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...

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

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

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 policeman is run over by an automobile

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...

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...

Chrissie White, one of Hepworth Studios' biggest stars, heads up this feisty battle-of-the-sexes comedy about an independent young lady who, for the...

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

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

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

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.

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...

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

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