1908 Movies

Two singers do not enter and take up their position in the center of the stage. Instead, the camera discovers them, the woman on her balcony and the m...

Pathé's factory is the scene of the action. The interior of the huge laboratory comes into view, the employer and foreman, apparently in wry intimate...

A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.

A countryman buys a stubborn donkey and has trouble.

Two rag-pickers enter their hovel with their bags of scraps. After a little preliminary comedy they set up a white sheet. One of the rag-pickers now t...

Short reportage

“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 c...

Short reportage

A newly-hired housekeeper turns out to be too clumsy and stupid to do her job.

Peter Elfelt filming fashion.

King Frederik VIII visiting Jylland, arriving by train before traveling into town.

On a dock, men and women are bustling about. The fish is unloaded and brought to the covered market. The fish merchants gut the fish with dexterity, b...

An old man attempts to hang a picture on the wall and asks for a step-ladder. His assistant takes a little too long to get it to him.

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...

Created by the young but obviously ambitious French production company Lux Film, founded just two years before by pioneer Henri Joly. The film was rel...

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

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...

A lion hunt filmed in 1908 by the aristocrat Hyacinthe Octavie Frédérique Louise Irénée Rolande Pirmez. This is the oldest known film to be shot in Et...

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