1908 Movies

An Italian short movie.

Documents one of the most important wrestling matches of the early 20th century between the legendary Estonian strongman Georg Hackenschmidt and the A...

Reading that a certain dealer has an ancient Egyptian mummy for sale, an antique professor goes out to inspect the curio. It meets with his satisfacti...

“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 one...

A little girl, who is preparing to receive her first holy communion, is seen leaving the church with the rest of her companions and starting home with...

"The angel in this film is a little girl who is struggling hard to keep alive her old mother, who is lying ill on a pile of rags. She tries in various...

Miss Inga Berentz dresses up for the entrance. An attraction of the first rank for all admirers of the borne diva. And a dance potpourri by Inga Beren...

A kabuki scene starring actors Ichikawa Udanji an Uchikawa Unosuke.

“Kvinnliga akademiska fotbollsklubben Virginia: Ko-misk!” is one of five films (three of which are now lost) that were made by students at the Univers...

Precious footage of the 1908 Olympics shows the main venue, White City Stadium, with brief glimpses of pole vaulting, gymnastics, high jump, swimming,...

Early swedish film.

One of the most popular of all Japan folk-tales is the famous undersea myth of Urashima Taro, the fisherman who is taken by a turtle to an underwater...

French horror short from 1908.

Patients behave like apes after being given monkey-gland injections.

A young Roman soldier and his sweetheart are embracing each other fondly and making their vows. The next scene shows the public square, where it is an...

Travelogue about the Peak Tram in Hong Kong. A journey with this funicular from the top to the end point, the city below. The camera is in front of th...

Short comedy about a man who dreams that he runs over everyone with his skates. A man falls asleep on the sidewalk and dreams that he gets into troub...

Short film about car racing

International Workers' Day and the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Roskilde. May Day demonstration and flower procession in Kristianstad and the Ro...