1908 Movies

Lost Polish comedy short from 1908. Not to be confused with the 1916 remake of which a small portion survives.

A countryman buys a stubborn donkey and has trouble.

A short film starring Clément Mégé.

Lost film.

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

Short film about a magic ride

Young woman is taken to the faitytale kingdom where gold coins are made.

Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.

A collection of eight films with magical elements born out of the eternal duality of good and evil. They were shot between 1902 and 1908, when the pha...

An old man attempts to hang a picture on the wall and asks for a step-ladder. His assistant takes a little too long to get it to him.

A sheriff apprehends a bank robber and recovers the money. On the way back to town, the sheriff loses the recovered money in a crooked card game. The...

Rempailleur is the French word for the person who repairs the wicker seat in chairs, and that's the central joke in this short comedy. A rubber-legged...

A lion hunt filmed in 1908 by the aristocrat Hyacinthe Octavie Frédérique Louise Irénée Rolande Pirmez. This is the oldest known film to be shot in Et...

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy everyda...

A girl walking in the woods is captured by an evil dwarf. He takes her home and forces her to keep house for him. Thanks to a beautiful fairy and the...

A newly-hired housekeeper turns out to be too clumsy and stupid to do her job.

Steampunk fantasia of interplanetary travel and submarine life.

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

After an altercation two men exchange cards, an invitation to adjudicate their differences on the field of honor. The seconds make all arrangements an...