1908 Movies

Images of Sicily.

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop...

Based on the play by A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin.

French horror short from 1908.

A silent short about a Sioux Indian by D.W. Griffith.

In the lonely wilds of Southern California there stands a rural tavern, kept by an old trapper, who had been widowed years ago; his wife leaving him a...

Actuality segment showing King Gustaf V’s visit to Ystad on 10 July 1908. Footage includes his arrival in a landau with white horses, interactions wit...

M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he...

This short about a clumsy valet is considered the very first Russian film comedy.

During an ascent of Canigou, a traveler falls into a precipice, his body rolling to the bottom of the abyss on the glistening snow of the glacier. The...

This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures in which great ingenuity on the part of the operato...

Footage of the expedition leaving Antarctica from New Zealand shot by government cameraman James McDonald. His excellency Admiral Sir Wilmot Hawkswort...

Footage of a railway accident in Berlin on September 26, 1908

The King has the archbishop murdered, then repents.

An excellent reproduction of the world-famed riders of Russia in their various stunts and acrobatic feats while on their thoroughbred horses.

Fairy-tale adaptation.

Who killed this man to rob him of his money in this notorious neighborhood of Paris? The usual local scoundrel such as the one that has almost been ly...

Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.