1908 Movies

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...

Tonbild (early form of sync sound film). The music is the sextet from Act Two of Lucia di Lammermoor, sung in German.

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...

We can see the children of the director playing and dancing, obviously getting told what to do while it happens, and later on his wife knitting with t...

Lost film.

On a rainy and windy day there is marching a procession of priests and town dignitaries. A big community of priests is consecrating the foundation sto...

This richly colored picture revives an interesting incident in French history and shows us some of the famous events connected with the overthrow of t...

Saphora, a noble Roman patrician, falls for the commoner Marcus, but his heart belongs to Lydia. Jealous of their love, Saphora has Lydia imprisoned i...

Four sturdy moving men are busy at work taking down huge cupboards, trunks, beds, etc., and are feeling very hot and thirsty, when all at once the lid...

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph sto...

Farmer Pumpkin's pig won the blue ribbon at an exhibition and visits the photographer's to have his prize pig photographed. The farmer, the photograph...

Actuality of Crown Princess Margareta’s 2 June 1908 visit to Lund: arrival at the station, carriage procession along Klostergatan past the Grand, scen...

In this funny picture we see the vacuum cleaner, the modern dust eradicator, performing some very droll tricks. As soon as the fellow turns on the air...

This is a frustrating watch as there looks to be some great filmmaking there, but a number of scenes (including the beginning and end) are missing, th...

A woman and her mother bring a little dog home from a dog shelter in Gennevilliers. The woman's husband comes home, is displeased, and pays a man to s...

A man picks up a man in drag who robs him. Contemporary press critized it as made with a bad taste and technically flawed.

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

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....

Produced by the Goumont Company in Peru.