1908 Movies

An Old man is chased by some people. He hits them with his magic sack and they disappear. He is then arrested and escapes by climbing into his sack an...

Two pranksters, finding out that a couple is about to apply for a marriage license at the town mayor's office, sneak into the office to pull a practic...

Also known as Sherlock Holmes

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful m...

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed lost. No English-language release is known for this film,[1] but the translated tit...

Two noblemen fight over a lady.

On a bleak Christmas Eve, a destitute, widowed mother named Mrs. Martin fails to find work. Desperate for food, her young daughter Margie writes a let...

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.

Short reportage

Old Ezra Perkins, his wife Matilda, and an English gentleman named Reggie take a "rubberneck" sightseeing tour of New York’s Bowery district. Led by a...

A group of people take roller skating too far.

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missi...

Funeral Pomps of Admirals Saldanha and Barroso; tribute from the Brazilian Navy. Views "of the Avenue, full of people"; "army and armada officers, lad...

A comedic short film.

A lost film. Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scroo...

Footage of a Milan carneval in 1908

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun confusi...

Miss Inga Berentz dresses up for the entrance. An attraction of the first rank for all admirers of the borne diva. And a dance potpourri by Inga Beren...