Mees besigtigde Van Hepworth

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.

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

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...

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Filmed using Vivaphone sound system. This was invented by Cecil M. Hepworth, and performers mimed to a 10" record.

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

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

A habitual loser at the race-track is approached by a man who claims to be an inventor with a machine that can see into the future; but can it...

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.

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...