Cecil M. Hepworth

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.

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A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the crawling creatures thus revealed aren't quite what one might expect. Parody of 'The Unseen World: The Urban-Duncan Micro-Bioscope' series.

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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. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.

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A policeman is run over by an automobile

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TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies.

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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.

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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 automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave frantically, but can a collision be avoided?

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A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

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Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away from her family, but is reluctant to reveal the full story. Intent on concealing her identity from her pursuers, Denis coerces her into marrying him. But when the body of Margaret's missing father is discovered, it leads Denis to suspect his wife of murder.

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Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.

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

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The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

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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 highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was discovered in a vault in Canada.

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

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

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

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A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

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A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.

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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’ thriller. When the wealthy Mr Harvey has to go away on a train journey, a couple of sharp-eyed crooks take the opportunity to burgle his home. Only the live-in maid stands between them and Harvey’s safe. Can our plucky heroine save the day?

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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 altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.

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

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

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A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

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

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A cashier gambles and robs a bank, but returns the money for his mother's sake.

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Scenes from the coronation of George V. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

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Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.

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A man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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

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Some gossiping women exaggerate the priest’s gift to a little girl.

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A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The chase continues onto the surface. The professor meets a group of prehistoric women, who flee when other monsters appear. The professor's wife finds him sleeping in the laboratory, surrounded by fossils, and wakes him with water from a siphon. This short film is only viewable at the BFI, and its generally believed to be the first film depiction of dinosaurs, here accomplished through the use of simple pantomime costumes.

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A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the crawling creatures thus revealed aren't quite what one might expect. Parody of 'The Unseen World: The Urban-Duncan Micro-Bioscope' series.

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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. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.

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King of Iran, travel to Europe.

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TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies.

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This is a ladies cycling display by the Catford Cycling Club in the summer of 1899 in London, England.

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