Movies 1908 Page 8

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 group of people take roller skating too far.

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...

Adaptation of a classic Australian novel about life as a convict, this was the third feature film produced in Australian history. It is now...

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a...

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

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

A lost film. Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However,...

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

Little Johnny is presented with an air gun that shoots darts. He decided to play pranks with it.

L. Frank Baum would appear in a white suit and present his live actors, slide shows and films as a live travelogue presentation of his popular...

Overview of ideas about the police on the occasion of an attack on the bourgeois by Apaches gangsters.

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

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed lost. No English-language release is known for this film,[1] but the translated...

A wealthy man who possess a magical donkey desires to marry his own daughter. In exchange for her consent, she asks him to kill the donkey, the...

A couple of performers perform the big love number from the Oscar Strauss operetta.

Kinemacolor

A man is rude to everyone he meets and is thrown into the river.

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.

The Baseball Fan is a Comedy short.

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

A country girl leaving home for the seminary.

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

“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...

Originally it was called White City because when it opened, all the buildings were painted white. It was a fairgrounds, intended to celebrate the...

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

The first cinematic depiction of Jesse James

A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter...

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

Lost film.

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

A 1908 short film

Robbers wait by the roadside ready to spring upon a series of passing travellers, gleefully hiding their stolen plunder in a hollow tree. When a...

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...

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase his new...

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