1908 Movies

Short reportage

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 Ma...

Silent 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 Jewis...

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

Cited as "the first silent vampire film", it is actually a pirate film and has nothing to do with vampires.

Jeannot sees a lithograph of a ballet dancer and decides he wants one of them and heads to the big city. Jeanette decides she can be one and likewise...

A early German Piccolo-Duett.

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

Four women are drinking champagne at a couple of tables. A man comes into their midst and sings the title song in this sound-film from Deutsch Bioskop...

Here's a travelogue that takes its audience to Palermo and shows them the big sights, and the hidden ones. It ends with a slow but impressive panorama...

Early sound short from Deutsche Bioscop GmbH.

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.

Only the visual elements are known to survive from this 1908 recording of a duet from Franz von Suppe's early one-act operetta. As is usual with these...

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 befo...

German Tonbild.