Most Viewed Year 1908 - 22

1908 Vitagraph Company one-reel short film.

In this screaming comic is shown the amount of mischief that can be accomplished by one small boy. (Moving Picture World synopsis.)

A young woman sitting on a bench in the public park is annoyed by an old man sitting next to her and paying her persistent attention. Resenting this...

Shots of Morocco, including a harbour town with a fortress.

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...

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

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

Arrival of the Christian Slaves: The captives are brought before Nero. He chooses one fair maiden to serve in his palace. The others are condemned to...

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...

Laying the Foundation Stone of Gustav Adolf's Church.

Traveling by boat to film Copenhagen from a different angle.

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

This is a frustrating watch as there looks to be some great filmmaking there, but a number of scenes (including the beginning and end) are missing,...

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...

A short documentary film released in France.

A performer lipsync sings “La Donna e Mobile” from the opera Rigoletto.

On a dock, men and women are bustling about. The fish is unloaded and brought to the covered market. The fish merchants gut the fish with dexterity,...