1908 Movies

In this simple melodrama, a boy loses his beloved girl, hence dying of a broken heart. The film presents advanced techniques in several fields.

A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter...

Early Balkan footage.

A young boy’s toys come to life through animation.

With the family of Mr. Phlipp there is employed that wrecker of domestic serenity, a pretty French maid, whose trim figure and cherry lips are simply...

The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful m...

A man picks up a man in drag. Short Italian comedy from 1908.

A bungling bumpkin fails at a number of jobs in this slapstick comedy - before he finds his true calling.

Early Balkan footage.

A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a costum...

A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and thr...

The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones,...

A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.

A silent short about a Sioux Indian by D.W. Griffith.

The film is quite sophisticated for it's time with a relatively large number of scene changes as we follow Max's misadventures. It also features a clo...

A wealthy man who possess a magical donkey desires to marry his own daughter. In exchange for her consent, she asks him to kill the donkey, the source...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missi...

A frog hops around a magic fountain.