1908 Movies

A boy takes pictures of everything, including some embarrassing situations. When he projects the pictures on a wall for everyone to see, his father sp...

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but r...

A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.

Reading that a certain dealer has an ancient Egyptian mummy for sale, an antique professor goes out to inspect the curio. It meets with his satisfacti...

Children play with their toys while Grandpa dozes. He dreams that the doll's house catches fire and the toys rush to put out the flames. He awakens to...

Short reportage

Footage of a Milan carneval in 1908

View on the Čech Bridge from the Pařížská Street. At the bridge head there is a group of the city officials reading their speeches. The festive group...

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...

A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the wife, is rejected, and tries to kill the trapper.

An old farmer named Nhô Anastácio arrives in the capital for the first time. While visiting Rio de Janeiro's tourist attractions, he meets a singer an...

Acting on the Darwin theory, that man descended from a monkey, a scientist experiments towards turning man back to the monkey stage. He inoculates a n...

Actuality coverage of the London 1908 Olympic Games, issued by Pathé and released in Sweden as Olympiska spelen i London 1908. The reel includes cerem...

A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.

A dancing scene from Robert Planquette's operetta "Surcouf” is performed.

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly r...

Travelogue taking viewers on a tour of Stockholm in 1908. The film begins with a panoramic view from the Belvedere, then shows the busy harbor, wharve...

A little girl, who is preparing to receive her first holy communion, is seen leaving the church with the rest of her companions and starting home with...

Images of Gotland

In a British barrack in India is confined a tamed gorilla which has conceived a hatred for one of the Hindoo attendants, owing to the barbarous treatm...