The best movies 1908 Pagina 25

An art student inherits a sum of money and has his fellow students over to celebrate. Chaos ensues.

The beauty of the rose unfolds in all its aspects. A wonderful example of the virtuoso techniques of coloring, such as stencil coloring, in early...

Only the visual elements are known to survive from this 1908 recording of a duet from Franz von Suppe's early one-act operetta. As is usual with...

Silent pull the mourners behind the coffins of their unfortunate colleagues past the camera.

Women are as good as men. They are even better than men. Thus a crowd of common women are making speeches, and drunk with their own words and getting...

A boy puts glue in his brother's moustache lotion.

Pictures of travel in such places as the Orient and the black continent are always sure to be interesting, for not many of us have sojourned in these...

Tonbild (Sound Picture) for the duet "Wenn ich im Kampf für dich siege" from the first act of Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin".

Travelling through Swedish Lappland, exploring the Northen Light, a Sami village, and the nature of Abisko National Park.

A submarine coming into port is seen gliding smoothly on the water and the little rowboat which is to bring the captain of the vessel to his post is...

A early German Piccolo-Duett.

In this picture we anticipate the probable means of navigation in the coming century. A young lady and a friend are observed entering an air-ship....

Recording of the voice of an African man.

This is a beautifully colored picture, opening with a scene in the laboratory of an old wizard, who is bending over a vessel compounding some sort of...

Here's something a little lighter than usual from the series of three-minute musical shorts produced in Germany from 1906 to. 1910 - twenty years...

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

A woman attorney is seen in her apartment with her poor henpecked husband, who is more like her man servant than her better half. She is so taken up...

Paris has the unique distinction of possessing women cabbies; the scheme of making them chauffeurs (or, more properly, "chauffeuses") meets with...

These extraordinary views of life and landscape in Beijing were filmed during the last years of China's Qing dynasty, before the 1911 Xinhai...

A young beggar girl and her aged mother are tramping along the road when a motor car passing swiftly by knocks down the older woman just in front of...

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

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...