The best movies 1908 Pagina 20

A demonstration by the R. Hornsby engineering company of Grantham of a revolutionary all-terrain vehicle.

Reading that a certain dealer has an ancient Egyptian mummy for sale, an antique professor goes out to inspect the curio. It meets with his...

Tonbild (early form of sync sound film). The music is the sextet from Act Two of Lucia di Lammermoor, sung in German.

Actuality coverage of the London 1908 Olympic Games, issued by Pathé and released in Sweden as Olympiska spelen i London 1908. The reel...

A doctor kills himself so his insurance will save his daughter's husband from jail.

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

A woman goes for a walk. She is wearing the latest fashion, a pencil skirt. She bumps into a cyclist who is chasing her. Before long, she is chased...

The outlawed Earl of Huntington took to the woods, as we say in America, and with his merry archers had a good time in Sherwood Forest with winsome...

Silent film from Georges Méliés. It is presumed to be lost.

Images of Gotland

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost. Though the plot of the film is unknown, it may have...

Laying the Foundation Stone of Gustav Adolf's Church.

Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema screen was sword-master Miyamoto Musashi,...

The Germans were not far behind when if came to experimenting with sound and the surviving discs seem like a curious anachronism because they closely...

An old farmer named Nhô Anastácio arrives in the capital for the first time. While visiting Rio de Janeiro's tourist attractions, he...

Lost film.

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

Two fake thugs stage a dramatic robbery for a silent movie, causing a panicked kid to summon the police. The heavily armed cops rush in and arrest...

A pesky fly and the determination to get it.

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