1908 Movies

Traditional Swedish dances are performed.

Journey of a camel caravan encountering a tribe of Bicharyn Arabs who perform and offer a glimpse of their children.

A quartet are making merry at a feast, and one of them is so full of liquor that he falls from his chair. At this his companions conceive, a clever pl...

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy everyda...

Shots of Morocco, including a harbour town with a fortress.

Travelling through Swedish Lappland, exploring the Northen Light, a Sami village, and the nature of Abisko National Park.

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

In a Japanese garden, gather maidens with nets to catch butterflies, all in the joy of life and budding maidenhood; fresh Irish sweetness of blithe Sp...

Pierrot and his Columbine are seated at a little feast with another friend, when Pierrot becomes jealous of his friend's attentions to the girl and or...

A masher approaches a lady on the street who is elegantly dressed, but when he gets near enough to see her face he changes his mind so suddenly that h...

Short film about car racing

Here is seen an old miser preparing for bed, but before retiring he counts his money and hides it under his mattress. He is just dropping off to sleep...

Originally it was called White City because when it opened, all the buildings were painted white. It was a fairgrounds, intended to celebrate the 1904...

This is a beautifully colored picture, opening with a scene in the laboratory of an old wizard, who is bending over a vessel compounding some sort of...

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

A lion hunt filmed in 1908 by the aristocrat Hyacinthe Octavie Frédérique Louise Irénée Rolande Pirmez. This is the oldest known film to be shot in Et...

Reading that a certain dealer has an ancient Egyptian mummy for sale, an antique professor goes out to inspect the curio. It meets with his satisfacti...

A doctor kills himself so his insurance will save his daughter's husband from jail.

The beauty of the rose unfolds in all its aspects. A wonderful example of the virtuoso techniques of coloring, such as stencil coloring, in early cine...

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...