1908 Movies

An old merchant gets lost in the forest and arrives at a magnificent garden where he sits and picks some magnificent roses. Suddenly, the hideous Beas...

Fairy-tale adaptation.

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a dem...

In the lonely wilds of Southern California there stands a rural tavern, kept by an old trapper, who had been widowed years ago; his wife leaving him a...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

Short film about the carnival activities in Mainz, Germany.

Footage of a railway accident in Berlin on September 26, 1908

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies aw...

A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and...

At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man...

In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dea...

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders.

A traveler is welcomed into a fully automated hotel, where no human intervention is required. But the machines malfunction, giving the guest a nightma...

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel f...

Filmed on October 4, 1908, it includes images of the departure from the eleven o'clock mass at the church of San Pedro and of the races at the Santa B...

An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.

Mary Tudor's secret marriage to Charles Brandon and her resistance to the king's plans to marry her off to Louis XII of France.

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.