Cecil M. Hepworth
Production · 1873 – 1953 · Lewisham, London, England, UK
Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Hepworth Studios. His works include Alice in Wonderland (1903), the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Movies8
Movie6.0FantasyFamilyThis 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
1903 · 138 votes
Movie6.1DramaA dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
Rescued by Rover
1905 · 48 votes
- Movie6.3CrimeComedy
Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.
The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper
1908 · 6 votes
- Movie4.0Comedy
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 crawling creatures thus revealed aren't quite what one might expect. Parody of 'The Unseen World: The Urban-Duncan Micro-Bioscope' series.
The Unclean World: The Suburban-Bunkum Microbe-Guyoscope
1903 · 1 votes
Movie6.0HorrorAs 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
1900 · 45 votes
- Movie6.2ComedyHorror
A policeman is run over by an automobile
How to Stop a Motor Car
1902 · 12 votes
Movie6.1ComedyAn 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
1900 · 58 votes
Movie7.0TRICK. Two bathers arrive at a river, disrobe at the water's edge and dive in. The action is then reversed and the men are seen leaving the water feet first and their clothes fly back on their bodies.
The Bathers
1900 · 1 votes