1908 Movies

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

When his wife dies, knight Svend Dyring gets married to noble Mrs. Guldborg. Little does the good knight know that Mrs. Guldborg is in fact pure evil,...

Early Balkan footage.

Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.

Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.

Early Balkan footage.

View on the Čech Bridge from the Pařížská Street. At the bridge head there is a group of the city officials reading their speeches. The festive group...

FRAGMENT | A man lies on his deathbed and shows his will to his carer. After his death, a grieving man and woman come in. The scene changes and we fin...

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...

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering ch...

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

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed lost. No English-language release is known for this film,[1] but the translated tit...

A young woman sitting on a bench in the public park is annoyed by an old man sitting next to her and paying her persistent attention. Resenting this r...

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

French horror short from 1908.

The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful m...

A poor family, suffering from a lack of food, plan to sell their dog to gain some extra income. Before they act on their plan, the dog discovers some...

Although it is very near Christmas, when everybody should rejoice, a sailor bound for a dangerous expedition takes leave of his wife, and the poor wom...

Three woman playing a game of catch leads to one of them exposing herself as she gets stuck whilst peering out the window.