Alma Taylor Movies

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.

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

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

'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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

'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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

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.

An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their...

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

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

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

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

Jimmy finds an abandoned baby while motorcycling in the country.

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

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.