Most Viewed Year 1908

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

Genre: Animation

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Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florence Turner

Experimental color film that shows a magician and his assistant making objects and people appear and disappear. Then they stack up some blocks and a...

Genre: Fantasy

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Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Florence Lawrence

Two big game hunters are on safari in the jungle with their African guide. They observe zebras, ostrich and a hippopotamus, and catch a small monkey...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Viggo Larsen

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Segundo de Chomón

"The Scarlet Letter" is a story of early Puritan days in New England. Hester, a beautiful young Englishwoman, is sent to America by her husband, with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gene Gauntier

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Julienne Mathieu

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

Genre: History

Cast: Charles le Bargy

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

Genre: Drama

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Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florence Lawrence

Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Julienne Mathieu

In a British barrack in India is confined a tamed gorilla which has conceived a hatred for one of the Hindoo attendants, owing to the barbarous...

Genre: Drama

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On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arthur V. Johnson

This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Gebhardt

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

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

Genre: Comedy

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King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.

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Cast: Florence Lawrence

During the recent Olympic games, held in the city of Loudon. Pathe was granted sole rights to take pictures for the cinematograph of the national...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: King Edward VII of the United Kingdom

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

Genre: Documentary

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