Hepworth Picture Plays Movies

A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.

Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878...

A horse fetches help when tramps attack its master.

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 millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.

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...

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

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.

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

A captured detective is rescued by a dog.

A man takes the blame for a maid who steals a necklace, but denounces her when she weds another.

An Englishman travel's abroad

A young woman is abducted and forced to beg from passers-by.

A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.

A policeman is run over by an automobile

An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a...

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.

Short domestic scene featuring Percy Stow. A print survives at the BFI.

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...