Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland 1903

6.00

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.

1903

Explosion of a Motor Car

Explosion of a Motor Car 1900

6.06

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.

1900

How It Feels to Be Run Over

How It Feels to Be Run Over 1900

5.92

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?

1900

That Fatal Sneeze

That Fatal Sneeze 1907

5.72

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.

1907

A Day in the Hayfields

A Day in the Hayfields 1904

5.30

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

1904

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor 1910

5.00

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.

1910

The Doll's Revenge

The Doll's Revenge 1907

6.00

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

1907

The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper

The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper 1908

6.00

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.

1908

The Fugitive Futurist

The Fugitive Futurist 1924

6.00

A habitual loser at the race-track is approached by a man who claims to be an inventor with a machine that can see into the future; but can it predict the winner of tomorrow's race? And just whom is the “inventor” trying to escape anyway?

1924

Hamlet

Hamlet 1913

3.70

Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham.

1913

Helen of Four Gates

Helen of Four Gates 1920

4.70

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.

1920

Floral Parade of Lady Cyclists

Floral Parade of Lady Cyclists 1899

4.00

This is a ladies cycling display in the summer of 1899 in London, England. It is a display/show by the Catford Cycling Club.

1899

Burnham Beeches

Burnham Beeches 1909

8.00

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

1909

The Magic Glass

The Magic Glass 1914

4.50

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

1914