Alma Taylor Movies

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...

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.

Filmed using Vivaphone sound system. This was invented by Cecil M. Hepworth, and performers mimed to a 10" record.

'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

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

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a...

Tomboys play tricks on their uncle when he flirts with a maid.

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.

Jimmy finds an abandoned baby while motorcycling in the country.

A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.

Two young men help two girls escape.

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...

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)