The best movies 1908 Pagina 12

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

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...

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At a banquet, Mrs. Brown realizes she left her pearl necklace at home. Overhearing this, a guest named Wells—secretly a burglar—feigns...

Released the same week than Selig's version, they both were the first film versions of the popular play, adapted from Ellen Wood's 1861 novel.

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...

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

In the 1849 American West, seductive outlaw Jack Morgan falls in love with Mollie, an innkeeper's daughter, already coveted by stagecoach driver...

Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both. The girl has given her heart to one of...

The director Mario Gallo made the first film with an argument from Argentina, although the opinions of scholars are not coincident as to their...

Dr Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr Hyde. Modern...

Silent film from Georges Méliès, presumed to be lost.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

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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...

The first cinematic depiction of Jesse James

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

Scenes of islanders and seabirds on the remote island of St. Kilda.

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In desperation at her mother's illness and their need of money, a young girl determines to go into the underworld in quest of relief, but a woman of...