1908 Movies

Silent film footage from late Qing dynasty China, depicting everyday scenes.

“A musician is given an invitation to a party, but finds that he has no dress suit to wear. He visits a friend, an artist, to see if he can borrow one...

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy everyda...

Travelling through Swedish Lappland, exploring the Northen Light, a Sami village, and the nature of Abisko National Park.

Acting on the Darwin theory, that man descended from a monkey, a scientist experiments towards turning man back to the monkey stage. He inoculates a n...

After an altercation two men exchange cards, an invitation to adjudicate their differences on the field of honor. The seconds make all arrangements an...

Mr. Nearbright is busily engaged writing; consults his watch. His wife, accompanied by her "Ma" enters, attired for a journey, carrying small satchels...

A lost newsreel with a self-evident title. One of the first films made on the territory of modern Belarus.

In this picture we anticipate the probable means of navigation in the coming century. A young lady and a friend are observed entering an air-ship. The...

Paris has the unique distinction of possessing women cabbies; the scheme of making them chauffeurs (or, more properly, "chauffeuses") meets with rathe...

On the dangerous coast of Brittany, where the Ocean and the Channel meet, pirates wait for ships to be drawn by the current, they raid the wrecks and...

When a bully steals their ball, a kind war veteran lends the saddened children a helping hand. And a leg or two…

The Germans were not far behind when if came to experimenting with sound and the surviving discs seem like a curious anachronism because they closely...

Ready, steady, relay! This newsreel captures the pepped-up mood of the camera-conscious youngsters assembled for the South London Schools Sports event...

Four women are drinking champagne at a couple of tables. A man comes into their midst and sings the title song in this sound-film from Deutsch Bioskop...

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

Rempailleur is the French word for the person who repairs the wicker seat in chairs, and that's the central joke in this short comedy. A rubber-legged...

Elephants at work in Burma.

A 1908 short film