1908 Movies

A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body...

In a corral, a cowboy tries to tame a horse.

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the mo...

A kabuki scene starring actors Ichikawa Udanji an Uchikawa Unosuke.

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

A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography,...

A demonstration by the R. Hornsby engineering company of Grantham of a revolutionary all-terrain vehicle.

On a dock, men and women are bustling about. The fish is unloaded and brought to the covered market. The fish merchants gut the fish with dexterity, b...

A recording of a trip on the Kinda Canal in Sweden, going from Linköping to Alvastra.

The oldest surviving Polish film, Pruska Kultura depicts the persecution of Poles under Prussian Germanisation, drawing on events such as the 1901 Wrz...

Also known as Sherlock Holmes

A young Spaniard treats his wife with utter indifference, and, leaving her heartbroken, goes to the woman whom he has placed before her in his affecti...

The first cinematic depiction of Jesse James

Topical actuality documenting the aftermath of the Lisbon Regicide on 1 February 1908, when King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luís Filipe wer...

Early Brazilian silent film documenting the 1908 Carnival in Rio.

Early Balkan footage.

Pierrot and his Columbine are seated at a little feast with another friend, when Pierrot becomes jealous of his friend's attentions to the girl and or...

After an altercation two men exchange cards, an invitation to adjudicate their differences on the field of honor. The seconds make all arrangements an...

Inventor Jacob Ellehammer's first attempts at flying.

The Germans were not far behind when if came to experimenting with sound and the surviving discs seem like a curious anachronism because they closely...