1908 Movies

A serpentine dancer is bathed in alternating hand-colored frames underneath an elaborate archway.

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun confusi...

In this funny picture we see the vacuum cleaner, the modern dust eradicator, performing some very droll tricks. As soon as the fellow turns on the air...

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser ke...

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

Two young ladies, members of a dramatic stock company, are rivals for stellar honors. One seems to have had things her own way for a time, having been...

Arrival of the Christian Slaves: The captives are brought before Nero. He chooses one fair maiden to serve in his palace. The others are condemned to...

Short reportage

The silent Spanish version of the story of Don Juan Tenorio.

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost. Though the plot of the film is unknown, it may have been built arou...

Short reportage

A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

After receiving a scolding for falling asleep on the job, Cupid is sent out in search of potential lovers to unite. While flying over a city, he finds...

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...

Two singers do not enter and take up their position in the center of the stage. Instead, the camera discovers them, the woman on her balcony and the m...

A drunkard has a vision of everything turning into bottles.

Short reportage

A woman goes for a walk. She is wearing the latest fashion, a pencil skirt. She bumps into a cyclist who is chasing her. Before long, she is chased by...

A young peasant finds himself rejected by a beautiful girl and vows to take revenge on a fortunate rival. On Christmas night, when the girl's favorite...