The parody films made by Fred and Joe Evans took many sacred cows as their
subject. Tennyson's famous poem, forced on generations of schoolchildren and the
subject of many a music hall lampoon, would have been even more familiar and
perhaps more poignant to an audience of 1914. The transformation of famous sites
was a device that the Evans brothers used frequently: here the Valley of Death
becomes a pub, while in Lieutenant Pimple's Dash for the Pole (1914) the North
Pole becomes an Inn, and in Pimple's Battle of Waterloo (1913) the site of the
famous battle becomes Waterloo station.
Complete surviving film (1:45)
