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Alice in Wonderland poster
Movie

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.

Alice in Wonderland

May 1903

Molly Bawn poster
Movie

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.

Molly Bawn

Dec 1916

Oh'phelia: A Cartoon Burlesque poster
Movie

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

Oh'phelia: A Cartoon Burlesque

Jan 1919

How to Stop a Motor Car poster
Movie

A policeman is run over by an automobile

How to Stop a Motor Car

Jun 1902

That Fatal Sneeze poster
Movie

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 retaliates by sneaking into the older man's room and putting pepper in his handkerchief, hairbrush, and clothing. But things quickly get out of hand when the sneezing that results begins to disrupt the whole town.

That Fatal Sneeze

Jun 1907

The Indian Chief and the Seidlitz Powder poster
Movie

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 popular brand of indigestion powder.

The Indian Chief and the Seidlitz Powder

Aug 1901

The Narrow Valley poster
Movie

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.

The Narrow Valley

Jan 1921

The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss poster
Movie

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

The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss

Jan 1920

Explosion of a Motor Car poster
Movie

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.

Explosion of a Motor Car

Jul 1900

The Doll's Revenge poster
Movie

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

The Doll's Revenge

Mar 1907

How It Feels to Be Run Over poster
Movie

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?

How It Feels to Be Run Over

Jun 1900

The Beggar's Deceit poster
Movie

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.

The Beggar's Deceit

Nov 1900

Lost, Stolen or Strayed poster
Movie

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

Lost, Stolen or Strayed

Feb 1905

Poison or Whiskey poster
Movie

A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.

Poison or Whiskey

Mar 1905

The Revolving Table poster
Movie

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

The Revolving Table

Jul 1903

Sister Mary Jane's Top Note poster
Movie

A Woman sings and everything breaks.

Sister Mary Jane's Top Note

Jun 1907

The Other Side of the Hedge poster
Movie

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

The Other Side of the Hedge

Jan 1905

When Daddy Comes Home poster
Movie

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

When Daddy Comes Home

Jun 1902

A Race for a Kiss poster
Movie

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

A Race for a Kiss

Oct 1904

A Trip to Paris poster
Movie

An Englishman travel's abroad

A Trip to Paris

Oct 1904

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