1908 Movies

Children play with their toys while Grandpa dozes. He dreams that the doll's house catches fire and the toys rush to put out the flames. He awakens to...

Young woman is taken to the faitytale kingdom where gold coins are made.

In a British barrack in India is confined a tamed gorilla which has conceived a hatred for one of the Hindoo attendants, owing to the barbarous treatm...

During an effort to repair a horse carriage a boy grabs the wheel and gives it a push down the hill and towards the city. The wheel turns and turns an...

“A musician is given an invitation to a party, but finds that he has no dress suit to wear. He visits a friend, an artist, to see if he can borrow one...

An old man attempts to hang a picture on the wall and asks for a step-ladder. His assistant takes a little too long to get it to him.

A woman and her mother bring a little dog home from a dog shelter in Gennevilliers. The woman's husband comes home, is displeased, and pays a man to s...

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...

A posse forms to track down a band of cattle rustlers after a rancher offers $500 reward for their capture.

1908 Vitagraph Company one-reel short film.

When the father of high-born son refuses to let him marry the beautiful seafood seller, she and her brothers determine on a grisly vengeance.

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.

On a dock, men and women are bustling about. The fish is unloaded and brought to the covered market. The fish merchants gut the fish with dexterity, b...

A young cartwright’s daughter is courted by a wealthy man and leaves her family home for a life of comfort. After her departure, her mother falls grav...

A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.

A short slapstick comedy — a man carrying two antique vases encounters a series of obstacles in the street, and eventually catches fire.