1908 Movies

Hélène, the daughter of a wealthy shipowner, receives a letter from Jean, her lover, who wants to see her to find out her father's answer about their...

Acting on the Darwin theory, that man descended from a monkey, a scientist experiments towards turning man back to the monkey stage. He inoculates a n...

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...

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...

1908 French silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

When a bully steals their ball, a kind war veteran lends the saddened children a helping hand. And a leg or two…

A woman gets a dog from the pound. But her husband, jealous that the dog is getting so much attention, pays a man on the street to steal the dog. The...

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...

Topical actuality documenting the aftermath of the Lisbon Regicide on 1 February 1908, when King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luís Filipe wer...

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...

A young beggar girl and her aged mother are tramping along the road when a motor car passing swiftly by knocks down the older woman just in front of t...

Actuality coverage of the London 1908 Olympic Games, issued by Pathé and released in Sweden as Olympiska spelen i London 1908. The reel includes cerem...

Robbers wait by the roadside ready to spring upon a series of passing travellers, gleefully hiding their stolen plunder in a hollow tree. When a Jewis...

Elephants at work in Burma.

A 1908 short film

Film about an inventor going wild

In this picture we anticipate the probable means of navigation in the coming century. A young lady and a friend are observed entering an air-ship. The...

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

Jeannot sees a lithograph of a ballet dancer and decides he wants one of them and heads to the big city. Jeanette decides she can be one and likewise...