Hepworth Movies

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

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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 phantom ride.

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

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

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 woman agrees to kiss the winner of a race between a horse and a motorcar.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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

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...

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 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...

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 housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

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

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 buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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