1908 Movies

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but r...

1908 Vitagraph Company one-reel short film.

Farmer Pumpkin's pig won the blue ribbon at an exhibition and visits the photographer's to have his prize pig photographed. The farmer, the photograph...

1908 French silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

A man picks up a man in drag who robs him. Contemporary press critized it as made with a bad taste and technically flawed.

Lost film.

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph sto...

Funeral Pomps of Admirals Saldanha and Barroso; tribute from the Brazilian Navy. Views "of the Avenue, full of people"; "army and armada officers, lad...

Tonbild (early form of sync sound film). The music is the sextet from Act Two of Lucia di Lammermoor, sung in German.

In this interesting picture we are given a vivid idea of the principal incidents connected with the Dreyfus case, which caused such a stir in military...

The lacemakers of Honiton, a small town in Devon, who have made bobbin lace since the 16th century.

We can see the children of the director playing and dancing, obviously getting told what to do while it happens, and later on his wife knitting with t...

“Kvinnliga akademiska fotbollsklubben Virginia: Ko-misk!” is one of five films (three of which are now lost) that were made by students at the Univers...

A trip from Stockholm to Gothenburg by two canals.

Actuality coverage of the London 1908 Olympic Games, issued by Pathé and released in Sweden as Olympiska spelen i London 1908. The reel includes cerem...

Documentary short showing recovery footage of a boat accident in Göta älv.

A cine-camera placed on the front side of a tram films the left bank communication under Letná. The tram passes by a cable way station to Letná. Is cr...

"The angel in this film is a little girl who is struggling hard to keep alive her old mother, who is lying ill on a pile of rags. She tries in various...