1908 Movies

Early Balkan footage.

It’s the day of the barber’s baby’s christening, and the guests start arriving with their flowers and gifts, dropping them off while the barber is sti...

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they begin...

Early Balkan footage.

In this funny picture we see the vacuum cleaner, the modern dust eradicator, performing some very droll tricks. As soon as the fellow turns on the air...

Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too sol...

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dea...

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A series of film of King Oscar II.

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering ch...