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

6.10

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

6.00

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

5.79

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

The Basilisk

The Basilisk 1914

1

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.

1914

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

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

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

Aylwin

Aylwin 1920

1

A woman disapproves of her stepson's love for a girl who goes mad when her drunken father dies in a landslide.

1920

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

Lily of the Alley

Lily of the Alley 1924

1

Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With his worries heightened by the fear that he is about to go blind, he falls into a deep depression .....

1924