1908 Movies

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

A Spanish dancer, in front of an inn in the Spanish mountains, is courted by a smuggler, who asks her to marry him. She agrees. Later, in the dancer's...

The distressing plight of a young man who, dissatisfied with the food his wife serves him, eats horse meat, develops various equine mannerisms, and ev...

Two criminals lure a doctor away from his home with a phony note about a child's illness. After the doctor rushes off, the criminals break into his ho...

A fraudster is at work in his laboratory, where he pretends to make synthetic diamonds.

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...

Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too sol...

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

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

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...

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

An emaciated youth calls upon a physician who pumps air into his lungs until his chest is abnormal in size. With the power of the compressed air withi...

A country girl leaving home for the seminary.

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering ch...

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...

Short reportage

Two singers do not enter and take up their position in the center of the stage. Instead, the camera discovers them, the woman on her balcony and the m...

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...

Kinemacolor

A band of musicians stage a fake murder as a practical joke for their grumpy, curious neighbor.