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Stow, Percy (1876-1919)


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Percy Stow was responsible for more than 250 shorts for Clarendon, of which he was co-founder, between 1904 and 1915, including the Lt Rose series. He was previously associated with Hepworth from 1901-1903, where he specialized in trick films. Anthony Slide, Encyclopaedia of British Cinema

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	Alice in Wonderland (1903)
	The first screen version of Lewis Carroll's classic

	Glass of Goat's Milk, A (1909)
	Comic cautionary tale about the dangers of drinking goat's milk

	Invaders, The (1909)
	A foreign invasion is averted - thanks to pigeon power

	Lieutenant Rose and The Royal Visit (1911)
	Rose foils a plot to assassinate King George V

	Lieutenant Rose and the Stolen Code (1911)
	A signal book falls into enemy hands

	Love and the Varsity (1913)
	Two male students pose as female pupils to infiltrate a girls' school.

	Pied Piper of Hamelin, The (1907)
	Silent adaptation of Robert Browning's famous poem

	Tempest, The (1908)
	A witty, stylish precis of Shakespeare's play told in silent tableaux

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