1908 Movies

A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.

Market in Jonkoping

Film about an inventor going wild

Documentary short showing traditional marriage celebration in rural France.

Silent film footage from late Qing dynasty China, depicting everyday scenes.

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

An early account of Marat's murder, and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Charlotte Corday.

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...

“The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a number of c...

It is the only known surviving film footage from the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker-sponsored expedition to record American Indian life in the west, filmed and...

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.

Mrs. Neverrest is a very energetic woman and is passionately fond of sports of every description, and being blessed with a large fortune indulges free...

Travelogue about the Peak Tram in Hong Kong. A journey with this funicular from the top to the end point, the city below. The camera is in front of th...

An Innkeeper introduces his young and pretty daughter to a wealthy old man who is in quest of a wife, but she being already in love spurns his protest...

"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...

Peter Elfelt filming fashion.

Pictures of travel in such places as the Orient and the black continent are always sure to be interesting, for not many of us have sojourned in these...

Distinguished physician and sanitation officer Dr. William Gorgas takes a train ride around Colón, Panama Canal Zone with a companion.

Silent pull the mourners behind the coffins of their unfortunate colleagues past the camera.

Women are as good as men. They are even better than men. Thus a crowd of common women are making speeches, and drunk with their own words and getting...