1908 Movies

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

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

Kinemacolor

Tonbild (early form of sync sound film). The music is the sextet from Act Two of Lucia di Lammermoor, sung in German.

For the benefit of those who are not fortunate enough to travel and enjoy the beauties and customs of different countries, a film of this kind is an i...

A short slapstick comedy — a man carrying two antique vases encounters a series of obstacles in the street, and eventually catches fire.

“Kvinnliga akademiska fotbollsklubben Virginia: Ko-misk!” is one of five films (three of which are now lost) that were made by students at the Univers...

The Baseball Fan is a Comedy short.

A day in the life of a Stockholm drifter.

Three woman playing a game of catch leads to one of them exposing herself as she gets stuck whilst peering out the window.

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

Created by the young but obviously ambitious French production company Lux Film, founded just two years before by pioneer Henri Joly. The film was rel...

It is the only known surviving film footage from the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker-sponsored expedition to record American Indian life in the west, filmed and...

Market in Jonkoping

FRAGMENT | A man lies on his deathbed and shows his will to his carer. After his death, a grieving man and woman come in. The scene changes and we fin...

The outlawed Earl of Huntington took to the woods, as we say in America, and with his merry archers had a good time in Sherwood Forest with winsome Ma...

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.

A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.

Here's a travelogue that takes its audience to Palermo and shows them the big sights, and the hidden ones. It ends with a slow but impressive panorama...