Percy Stow

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage Caliban. Then Prospero uses his powers to create a tempest that shipwrecks some of the persons who caused his exile.

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.

A laundryman ties the lieutenant and girls in a sea cave. They are saved by sailors and shell the town.

A group of foreign invaders occupy the house of a girl because it is in a strategic position but she sends a pigeon with a message to the territorials who rout the invaders.

A woman swims to a battleship to alert its crew to the kidnapping of Lieutenant Rose.

A policeman is run over by an automobile

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage Caliban. Then Prospero uses his powers to create a tempest that shipwrecks some of the persons who caused his exile.

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.

A laundryman ties the lieutenant and girls in a sea cave. They are saved by sailors and shell the town.

A group of foreign invaders occupy the house of a girl because it is in a strategic position but she sends a pigeon with a message to the territorials who rout the invaders.

A woman swims to a battleship to alert its crew to the kidnapping of Lieutenant Rose.

A policeman is run over by an automobile

A henpeck persuades his friend to pose as a burglar.

A dog saves a man tied to railway tracks.

A car crash blows a lady with a parasol onto a steeple. An inventor with an airship comes to the rescue.

A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the crawling creatures thus revealed aren't quite what one might expect. Parody of 'The Unseen World: The Urban-Duncan Micro-Bioscope' series.

A lieutenant fights train wreckers in a tunnel, jumps from a parapet onto another train, and rows to a ship.

The lieutenant escapes form a spy's schooner and wires for help

A teacher pursues a rebellious dunce.

'Two students decide to elope with their girlfriends from a nearby girls' school, and hatch a plan to infiltrate the school by posing as girl pupils.' (British Film Institute)

A lieutenant signals the flagship to destroy an enemy chateau.

The lieutenant chases a gang across the sea and ice-floes.

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

An elderly woman is determined to board an omnibus that does not want to stop for her.

Short domestic scene featuring Percy Stow. A print survives at the BFI.

A spy poses as a captured lieutenant and steals a ship. The lieutenant escapes and bombs the ship from a monoplane.

Lieutenant Rose escapes capture, unmasks a Moor posing as a sailor and shells a town.

Chinese people rob an embassy and the lieutenant poses as a Chinese person to row for help.

A diner revolves the table and eats his neighbour's lunch.

This film introduced the Lieutenant Rose character, featuring the patriotic, high-adventure exploits of the fictional Royal Navy hero. The film's success would turn into a series of films that ran for 17 episodes.

The Lieutenant in a car chases a count in a train and is scooped aboard with a mailbag.

Stolen car and a police chase

A bearded man drinks goat's milk and butts people.

An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a popular brand of indigestion powder.

A hen-pecked husband with a suffragette wife dreams he is Prime Minister.

Lieutenant Rose poses as a woman to save the Governor's daughter from a rebel's cannon.

'Lieutenant dives to fight anarchist diver intent on blowing up King's ship.' (British Film Catalogue)

The lieutenant finds treasure in an underground cave and signals with a mirror for a ship to shell the Portuguese don.

The man in the moon comes to Earth in a gas balloon.

The Lieutenant escapes from Boxers' torture and shells them.

The King has the archbishop murdered, then repents.

A drunkard reforms on overhearing a child's prayer.

The lieutenant poses as a Moor to escape a besieged embassy and shells their hideout.

Lt Rose is persuaded by a woman to give her a tour of his battleship. She enlists the support of her fellow spies, one of whom dresses as woman, who tour the ship and steal the code book. Such is the Royal Navy's determination to retrieve the book that they open fire on the spies in their rowing boat. When that fails, they pursue them on land, and finally open fire on the escaping enemy battleship.

A doll fetches a nurse when children elope.