Cecil M. Hepworth
1873 - 1953
Mist in the Valley
Cecil M. Hepworth
Alma Taylor, G.H. Mulcaster
Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away from her family, but is reluctant to reveal the full story. Intent on concealing her identity from her pursuers, Denis coerces her into marrying him. But when the body of Margaret's missing father is discovered, it leads Denis to suspect his wife of murder.
Mist in the Valley
Helen of Four Gates
Cecil M. Hepworth
Alma Taylor, James Carew
HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was discovered in a vault in Canada.
Helen of Four Gates
Alice in Wonderland
Cecil M. Hepworth, Percy Stow
May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth
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
The Unclean World
Percy Stow
Cecil M. Hepworth
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.
The Unclean World
How It Feels to Be Run Over
Cecil M. Hepworth
May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth
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
