1908 Movies

A workers meeting with folks showing the popular attires of the time.

Inventor Jacob Ellehammer's first attempts at flying.

Precious footage of the 1908 Olympics shows the main venue, White City Stadium, with brief glimpses of pole vaulting, gymnastics, high jump, swimming,...

A young beggar girl and her aged mother are tramping along the road when a motor car passing swiftly by knocks down the older woman just in front of t...

A performer lipsync sings “La Donna e Mobile” from the opera Rigoletto.

Elephants at work in Burma.

Four women are drinking champagne at a couple of tables. A man comes into their midst and sings the title song in this sound-film from Deutsch Bioskop...

King Frederik VIII visiting Jylland, arriving by train before traveling into town.

Shots of Morocco, including a harbour town with a fortress.

Distinguished physician and sanitation officer Dr. William Gorgas takes a train ride around Colón, Panama Canal Zone with a companion.

An art student inherits a sum of money and has his fellow students over to celebrate. Chaos ensues.

The Magistrate's Conscience - A drama from Pathé Frères.

A thief hides inside a huge fake crocodile and crawls away, creating fear wherever he goes.

“A musician is given an invitation to a party, but finds that he has no dress suit to wear. He visits a friend, an artist, to see if he can borrow one...

Typical story where the father (a farmer) of a beautiful girl desires a wealthy man as a son-in-law and rejects her poor but honest suitor.

A young lady heads to dancing classes and, telling a young boy about it, he decides to join her. Neither show any aptitude or ability and thoroughly d...

Travelogue about the Peak Tram in Hong Kong. A journey with this funicular from the top to the end point, the city below. The camera is in front of th...

Short film from 1908