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.

A phantom ride.

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

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...

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

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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 man buys a magic powder that makes him invisible.

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