1908 Movies

Two fake thugs stage a dramatic robbery for a silent movie, causing a panicked kid to summon the police. The heavily armed cops rush in and arrest the actors, only to find out they just ruined a movie scene. Everyone has a good laugh at the station. Naturally,...

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

FRAGMENT | A man lies on his deathbed and shows his will to his carer. After his death, a grieving man and woman come in. The scene changes and we find ourselves on a beach in the company of two couples. They’re about up to fight on a cliff, and one of the men...

Short reportage

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

Traditional Swedish dances are performed.

"Lejonjakten" is one of five films (three of which are now lost) that were made by students at the University of Lund, Sweden, as a part of their 1908 carnival. The film is a cruel parody on Danish producer Ole Olsen's "Løvejagten" (1907) which was at the time...

The outlawed Earl of Huntington took to the woods, as we say in America, and with his merry archers had a good time in Sherwood Forest with winsome Maid Marian and jolly Friar Tuck. The adventures of Robin Hood makes an attractive subject for a pretty film. Th...

A woman attorney is seen in her apartment with her poor henpecked husband, who is more like her man servant than her better half. She is so taken up with her studies in law that she finds no time to bother with household duties, thus putting the burden on her...

Market in Jonkoping

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

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

French film.

Here's something a little lighter than usual from the series of three-minute musical shorts produced in Germany from 1906 to. 1910 - twenty years before most people think of the birth of talkies. Instead of serious music, it's a duet from an operetta, THE DOLL...

A drunk dreams that he is carried off to Hell.

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy everyday life in the metropolis as it happens on the street (including Boulevard Anspach, Rue de la Loi, Boulevard Em...

A very wise inventor has perfected an electric device whereby he can control the velocity of everything in sight when he turns the crank attached to the box in which the wonderful apparatus is encased. The first picture Hire shows him in the laboratory after c...

“The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a number of children of all sizes, shapes and degrees of African beauty. Following this is a match between two giant negro...

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

German Tonbild.