1908 MOVIES

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspira...

A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.

In this funny picture we see the vacuum cleaner, the modern dust eradicator, performing some very droll tricks. As soon ...

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical power...

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up t...

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots ...

After receiving a scolding for falling asleep on the job, Cupid is sent out in search of potential lovers to unite. Whil...

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at ...

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he mak...

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's...

A laundry man parks his horse-drawn cart to make a delivery. While he is inside, his horse sees a bag of oats and starts...

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is ...

Two hunters set out on safari with their African guide. They observe zebras, an ostrich, and a hippopotamus, capture a m...

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by ...

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Two criminals lure a doctor away from his home with a phony note about a child's illness. After the doctor rushes off, t...

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the...