1908 Movies

A young man walks into a café and hears the Merry Widow Waltz being played for the first time. He immediately buys a copy. Music in hand, he forgets everything and hums along the way. Soon, he's amused to see two policemen start waltzing! He passes a house and...

Tonbild (early form of sync sound film). The music is the sextet from Act Two of Lucia di Lammermoor, sung in German.

The director Mario Gallo made the first film with an argument from Argentina, although the opinions of scholars are not coincident as to their temporal order.

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 the children around her.

Lost film.

On a rainy and windy day there is marching a procession of priests and town dignitaries. A big community of priests is consecrating the foundation stone of the memorial of František Palacký. The Prague Archbishop František Schönborn is blessing the foundation...

This richly colored picture revives an interesting incident in French history and shows us some of the famous events connected with the overthrow of the power of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. (MPW Vol.4 Num.16)

Saphora, a noble Roman patrician, falls for the commoner Marcus, but his heart belongs to Lydia. Jealous of their love, Saphora has Lydia imprisoned in an underground dungeon. A merciful slave helps Marcus rescue his fiancée, and he condemns the cruel Saphora...

Four sturdy moving men are busy at work taking down huge cupboards, trunks, beds, etc., and are feeling very hot and thirsty, when all at once the lid of a badly fastened basket giving way, they discover a snug nest of bottles of wine.

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph story.

Farmer Pumpkin's pig won the blue ribbon at an exhibition and visits the photographer's to have his prize pig photographed. The farmer, the photographer give chase to Rastus, who has stolen the pig with the intention of eating it.

Actuality of Crown Princess Margareta’s 2 June 1908 visit to Lund: arrival at the station, carriage procession along Klostergatan past the Grand, scenes at the Cathedral, crowds along Kyrkogatan, and stops in the Botanical Garden and at Kulturen.

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 then the fun begins. It is all accomplished through some clever trick photography. First we see two attendant...

This is a frustrating watch as there looks to be some great filmmaking there, but a number of scenes (including the beginning and end) are missing, the print is in poor condition. It looks very nice though and the production values are once again quite high, b...

A woman and her mother bring a little dog home from a dog shelter in Gennevilliers. The woman's husband comes home, is displeased, and pays a man to steal the dog. The woman is distraught and offers a reward for the return of the dog. The man who stole the dog...

A man picks up a man in drag who robs him. Contemporary press critized it as made with a bad taste and technically flawed.

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

Two hunters set out on safari with their African guide. They observe zebras, an ostrich, and a hippopotamus, capture a monkey, and camp for the night. After a lion kills their goat and horse, they shoot it by the water’s edge and later kill a second. The anima...

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