Von Hepworth Studios

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....

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

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

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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.

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...

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 dandy embarrasses his friends by joining the army.

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...

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...

A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

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

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

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

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

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

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...