Hepworth Movies

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

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....

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

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’...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)

Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the...