1908 Movies

A pickpocket manages to escape the police through a series of fantastic tricks. The director in this film is unknown.

Leah, a Jewish woman fleeing persecution in Hungary, arrives in the town and captures the heart of Rudolf, the local magistrate's son. They plan to ma...

Filmed visit in Peru, at the Tent of San Juan de Dios.

A mischievous duke comes across a drunkard in a town square, and decides to pull a practical joke. He has the drunkard carried to the ducal palace and...

A countryman buys a stubborn donkey and has trouble.

A sheriff apprehends a bank robber and recovers the money. On the way back to town, the sheriff loses the recovered money in a crooked card game. The...

A comedic short film.

A drunkard has a vision of everything turning into bottles.

The fairest maiden is crowned queen of the May Day festival and the dignitaries of the town, surrounded by the cheering populace, music and decoration...

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser ke...

A demonstration by the R. Hornsby engineering company of Grantham of a revolutionary all-terrain vehicle.

Short reportage

A young peasant finds himself rejected by a beautiful girl and vows to take revenge on a fortunate rival. On Christmas night, when the girl's favorite...

Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate. One gets knock...

A bungling bumpkin fails at a number of jobs in this slapstick comedy - before he finds his true calling.

In this funny picture we see the vacuum cleaner, the modern dust eradicator, performing some very droll tricks. As soon as the fellow turns on the air...

Stable hostler Joe loves his wife Annie, but she leaves him and their child for a wealthy gentleman, only to die destitute in London, where Joe's endu...

Miss Inga Berentz dresses up for the entrance. An attraction of the first rank for all admirers of the borne diva. And a dance potpourri by Inga Beren...

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun confusi...

Two gypsy lovers sneak away from camp at night. The man proposes, the woman refuses. He then murders her with a knife. The body is immediately discove...