1908 Movies

A young woman is seen in thin film laughing at a youth, who, having fallen desperately in love with her at first sight, is ardently pressing his suit....

On the dangerous coast of Brittany, where the Ocean and the Channel meet, pirates wait for ships to be drawn by the current, they raid the wrecks and...

In this interesting little drama we are brought in contact with a man who is one of the highly respected citizens of a little mountain village, while...

French film.

Early Brazilian silent film documenting the 1908 Carnival in Rio.

Short film from 1908

A workers meeting with folks showing the popular attires of the time.

The oldest surviving Polish film, Pruska Kultura depicts the persecution of Poles under Prussian Germanisation, drawing on events such as the 1901 Wrz...

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...

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

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...

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...

Documentary short showing traditional marriage celebration in rural France.

A drunk dreams that he is carried off to Hell.

Rempailleur is the French word for the person who repairs the wicker seat in chairs, and that's the central joke in this short comedy. A rubber-legged...

Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.