Hepworth Picture Plays

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

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.

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 old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.

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.

A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.

A policeman is run over by an automobile

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 horse fetches help when tramps attack its master.

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

An Englishman travel's abroad

A captured detective is rescued by a dog.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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