The best movies 1908 Pagina 23

A very wise inventor has perfected an electric device whereby he can control the velocity of everything in sight when he turns the crank attached to...

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,...

Four sturdy moving men are busy at work taking down huge cupboards, trunks, beds, etc., and are feeling very hot and thirsty, when all at once the...

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...

The story follows an absurdly calm and indifferent man whose every action is extreme yet executed with total composure. When his doorbell breaks, he...

Early sound short from Deutsche Bioscop GmbH.

A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body...

Footage of the Mainz carnival procession.

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of 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...

Lost film, one of several adaptation of Shakespeare's play from the silent era. Do not confuse with Mario Caserini's version, released in May of the...

Short film about car racing

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...

Short reportage

A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.

Recording of the voice of an African man.

Song from an Operetta.

A quartet are making merry at a feast, and one of them is so full of liquor that he falls from his chair. At this his companions conceive, a clever...

Children play with their toys while Grandpa dozes. He dreams that the doll's house catches fire and the toys rush to put out the flames. He awakens...

“The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a...

In a corral, a cowboy tries to tame a horse.

Early Brazilian silent film documenting the 1908 Carnival in Rio.