Movies 1908 Page 2

Early Balkan footage.

Our picture relates to a crime committed by a Gorilla who escapes from his cage and through circumstantial evidence a young man, whom we will call in...

Signed by neurology professor Camillo Negro and cinematographer Roberto Omegna for the Società Anonima Ambrosio of Turin, Neuropathology is one of...

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton...

This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially hand coloured and shows several Japanese...

Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.

A traveler is welcomed into a fully automated hotel, where no human intervention is required. But the machines malfunction, giving the guest a...

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human...

Stenka Razin is the leader of a group of outlaws who live a life of revelry and carousing along the Volga River and in the nearby forests. When Razin...

A mixture of stop-motion and live action film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals in blackface.

This picture is an illustration of the story of Beatrice Cenci, the young woman who planned the murder of her guardian, in Rome, in the year of 1599.

A mythological scene with the most beautiful effect.

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

A silent short about a Sioux Indian by D.W. Griffith.

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The...

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...

A short film starring Clément Mégé.

Based on the play by A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin.

Fairy-tale adaptation.

Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he...

A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.

Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.

"The Scarlet Letter" is a story of early Puritan days in New England. Hester, a beautiful young Englishwoman, is sent to America by her husband, with...

A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the wife, is rejected, and tries to kill the trapper.

Two noblemen fight over a lady.

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

This film with a highly offensive and racist title tells the story of Jose, a handsome young Mexican, who leaves his home in the Sierra Madre...

Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.

This thrilling story of the days of '61 and '65 shows a scene in the woods and our hero doing sentry duty. His work has been tiresome, his strength...

A man steals a sheep and is chased by the shepherds and the police.

An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.

Miner Kate Nelson strikes gold but is quickly robbed at a frontier hotel by a desperate Mexican woman, who shoots a hotel clerk during her escape....

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

A countryman buys a stubborn donkey and has trouble.

Mack Sennett appears in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.