1908 Movies

Topical actuality documenting the aftermath of the Lisbon Regicide on 1 February 1908, when King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luís Filipe wer...

Cityscapes of Kalmar and Sölvesborg

Hélène, the daughter of a wealthy shipowner, receives a letter from Jean, her lover, who wants to see her to find out her father's answer about their...

A boy puts glue in his brother's moustache lotion.

We can see the children of the director playing and dancing, obviously getting told what to do while it happens, and later on his wife knitting with t...

This richly colored picture revives an interesting incident in French history and shows us some of the famous events connected with the overthrow of t...

Footage of the Mainz carnival procession.

In a British barrack in India is confined a tamed gorilla which has conceived a hatred for one of the Hindoo attendants, owing to the barbarous treatm...

Reading that a certain dealer has an ancient Egyptian mummy for sale, an antique professor goes out to inspect the curio. It meets with his satisfacti...

A little girl, who is preparing to receive her first holy communion, is seen leaving the church with the rest of her companions and starting home with...

Pierrot and his Columbine are seated at a little feast with another friend, when Pierrot becomes jealous of his friend's attentions to the girl and or...

Laying the Foundation Stone of Gustav Adolf's Church.

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

Children play with their toys while Grandpa dozes. He dreams that the doll's house catches fire and the toys rush to put out the flames. He awakens to...

In a corral, a cowboy tries to tame a horse.

Traditional Swedish dances are performed.

A serpentine dancer is bathed in alternating hand-colored frames underneath an elaborate archway.

The lacemakers of Honiton, a small town in Devon, who have made bobbin lace since the 16th century.