Cecil M. Hepworth

A 1903 silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring May Clark in this more twisted version of Wonderland. It has a total of eight minutes in length but it was the longest movie to date. There are good special effects for the early 1900s of Alice shrinking and growing in the doll house... (Wikipedia.org)

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby. (imdb)

Early footage of Queen Victoria's funeral.

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? (imdb)

Shows a picturesque country road, down which comes a two-seated automobile carrying four people. As the machine approaches a position directly in front and near the camera it explodes in a tremendous cloud of smoke. A policeman standing near by rushes to the scene of the disaster and in great amazement looks to the sky where the people have been blown. As he looks the shattered remains fall to earth; first an arm, then a leg, etc., until the road is covered with fragments. (imdb)

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay. (imdb)

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.

A madman adopts the daughter of the dead woman who rejected him and forces her to marry a crook. (imdb)

Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall and saves child. (imdb)

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

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

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.