Most Viewed Year 1908 - 24

Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.

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

French film.

For the benefit of those who are not fortunate enough to travel and enjoy the beauties and customs of different countries, a film of this kind is an...

A mischievous boy steals the calf's head from a drunk man, who has been sent by his wife to buy it. The boy then places the ruminant's head on the...

Kinemacolor

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.)

Recording of the voice of an African man.

We can see the children of the director playing and dancing, obviously getting told what to do while it happens, and later on his wife knitting with...

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...

Traveling by boat to film Copenhagen from a different angle.

King Frederik VIII visiting Jylland, arriving by train before traveling into town.

Inventor Jacob Ellehammer's first attempts at flying.

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of...

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...

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.

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