During a wedding reception at a Stately Home, the bride goes to hide in an unused room in a heavy chest. Her corpse is found thirty years later.
This short is based on a poem by E.T. Bayley. There's nothing on the Internet about him, but a bit of poking around turned up Thomas Haynes Bayly, who co-wrote a poem that might be the source material.
Although this short subject will seem primitive to the modern viewer on the BFI's Youtube site, it is a solid work for the era, with its stage composition, three-shot camera set-up and an "illustrated text" style of story-telling that would still be going strong a decade later. Director Percy Stow had directed the previous year's ALICE IN WONDERLAND; his 1908 version of THE TEMPEST would show his lively interest in the evolving grammar of film making. Although this short might not be terribly interesting, it's one of the few readily available works by an inventive director of the era.