Hepworth Picture Plays

A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.

A horse fetches help when tramps attack its master.

Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878 Irish novel of the same name by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Molly Bawn the novel by M. W. Hungerford contains her most famous idiom: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." It is also referenced in chapter 8 of James Joyce's Ulysses.

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.

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

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 wins a girl by pretending to take poison.

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

An Englishman travel's abroad

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.

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

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

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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

A banker's daughter rejects a rich client who then withdraws money to cause a run on the bank.

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms from sympathetic passers-by. A policeman gradually approaches from the distance. Feeling suspicious, he taps the beggar on the shoulder, whereupon the beggar leaps up in a panic and runs away on his perfectly functional legs. The policeman trips over the trolley before recovering his footing and setting off in pursuit.

A diner revolves the table and eats his neighbour's lunch.

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?