Most Viewed Year 1908 - 20

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

Footage of a Milan carneval in 1908

Early Balkan footage.

A comedic short film.

Documentary short showing traditional marriage celebration in rural France.

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

A pesky fly and the determination to get it.

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

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...

De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.

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

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

A man picks up a man in drag. Short Italian comedy from 1908.

An early account of Marat's murder, and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Charlotte Corday.

A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but...

The Magistrate's Conscience - A drama from Pathé Frères.

Laying the Foundation Stone of Gustav Adolf's Church.

A workers meeting with folks showing the popular attires of the time.

Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs is a 1908 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a showcase his new...