1908 Movies

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser ke...

French silent short film by Georges Méliès, presumed to be lost.

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

Two hunters set out on safari with their African guide. They observe zebras, an ostrich, and a hippopotamus, capture a monkey, and camp for the night....

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

A Boston walz is performed.

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

The fairest maiden is crowned queen of the May Day festival and the dignitaries of the town, surrounded by the cheering populace, music and decoration...

A young man walks into a café and hears the Merry Widow Waltz being played for the first time. He immediately buys a copy. Music in hand, he forgets e...

Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both. The girl has given her heart to one of the...

Early Balkan footage.

A drunkard has a vision of everything turning into bottles.

A young peasant finds himself rejected by a beautiful girl and vows to take revenge on a fortunate rival. On Christmas night, when the girl's favorite...

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

The director Mario Gallo made the first film with an argument from Argentina, although the opinions of scholars are not coincident as to their tempora...

Little Johnny is presented with an air gun that shoots darts. He decided to play pranks with it.

An impoverished factory worker happily endures hard labor out of love for his wife, but she detests their meager lifestyle. Craving excitement, she in...

A day in the life of a Stockholm drifter.

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