1908 Movies

Inventor Jacob Ellehammer's first attempts at flying.

A woman attorney is seen in her apartment with her poor henpecked husband, who is more like her man servant than her better half. She is so taken up w...

In this screaming comic is shown the amount of mischief that can be accomplished by one small boy. (Moving Picture World synopsis.)

A young cartwright’s daughter is courted by a wealthy man and leaves her family home for a life of comfort. After her departure, her mother falls grav...

A woman gets a dog from the pound. But her husband, jealous that the dog is getting so much attention, pays a man on the street to steal the dog. The...

Silent pull the mourners behind the coffins of their unfortunate colleagues past the camera.

French film.

Song from an Operetta.

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

Lost film, one of several adaptation of Shakespeare's play from the silent era. Do not confuse with Mario Caserini's version, released in May of the s...

Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.

In a Japanese garden, gather maidens with nets to catch butterflies, all in the joy of life and budding maidenhood; fresh Irish sweetness of blithe Sp...

Here is seen an old miser preparing for bed, but before retiring he counts his money and hides it under his mattress. He is just dropping off to sleep...

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but r...

One of the most popular of all Japan folk-tales is the famous undersea myth of Urashima Taro, the fisherman who is taken by a turtle to an underwater...

Journey of a camel caravan encountering a tribe of Bicharyn Arabs who perform and offer a glimpse of their children.

This is a beautifully colored picture, opening with a scene in the laboratory of an old wizard, who is bending over a vessel compounding some sort of...