1908 Movies

Short film about the carnival activities in Mainz, Germany.

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

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

A bitter feud between the Wilkinson and Caulfield families turns tragic when the Colonel’s young son is killed. Despite the hatred, Bobby Wilkinson an...

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she walk...

Short reportage

The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones,...

María Rosa is a Spanish silent film directed by Juan María Codina.

The Queen Bee and her entourage appear dancing around the hive. Suddenly, a splendid rose rises in a bed of flowers, comes to life and flies off with...

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hop...

As a newsboy is playing a game on the sidewalk with a friend, two men come near to them, and then stand in a position where they cannot be seen from t...

Max, a young man about town, splits his trousers while getting ready to go out one night. After applying some rather risky repairs without taking the...

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken.

Short reportage

A group of people take roller skating too far.

When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands, whi...

Early Balkan footage.

A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the...

Silent film directed by Mario Caserini for the Società Italiana Cines in 1908. It should not be confused, as is often the case, with the film "Abbando...

The miller's three sons receive their father's inheritance: the mill to the eldest, the donkey to the second, and the cat to the youngest. The two bro...