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...

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.

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.

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

Story of Pygmalion and Galatea. Based on the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Two young men help two girls escape.

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

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

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

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

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

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.....

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

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