The best movies 1908 Pagina 16

An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight...

Prodigious feats of strength by two little wooden men who leave the most sophisticated puppets far behind.

On a rainy and windy day there is marching a procession of priests and town dignitaries. A big community of priests is consecrating the foundation...

A little girl, who is preparing to receive her first holy communion, is seen leaving the church with the rest of her companions and starting home...

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...

A trip from Stockholm to Gothenburg by two canals.

A cine-camera placed on the front side of a tram films the left bank communication under Letná. The tram passes by a cable way station to...

A mischievous duke comes across a drunkard in a town square, and decides to pull a practical joke. He has the drunkard carried to the ducal palace...

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

A man is rude to everyone he meets and is thrown into the river.

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph...

Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate. One gets...

A 1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

Early Balkan footage.

It depicts the notorious criminal incident that had occured in Rio de Janeiro.

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

Short reportage

Early Balkan footage.

Documents one of the most important wrestling matches of the early 20th century between the legendary Estonian strongman Georg Hackenschmidt and the...

It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of...