How the Old Woman Caught the Omnibus

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A doll fetches a nurse when children elope.

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

A drunkard reforms on overhearing a child's prayer.