Most Viewed Year 1908 - 3

A Segundo de Chomón trick film.

Our picture relates to a crime committed by a Gorilla who escapes from his cage and through circumstantial evidence a young man, whom we will call in...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Two criminals lure a doctor away from his home with a phony note about a child's illness. After the doctor rushes off, the criminals break into his...

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

Pathé's version of José Zorrilla's play, Don Juan Tenorio.

This is a beautifully colored picture, opening with a scene in the laboratory of an old wizard, who is bending over a vessel compounding some sort of...

A wealthy man who possess a magical donkey desires to marry his own daughter. In exchange for her consent, she asks him to kill the donkey, the...

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

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

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

Here's a travelogue that takes its audience to Palermo and shows them the big sights, and the hidden ones. It ends with a slow but impressive...

A bungling bumpkin fails at a number of jobs in this slapstick comedy - before he finds his true calling.

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first dramatic film in Kyoto. “Honnô-ji...

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

Mack Sennett appears as a charity worker in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A mythological scene with the most beautiful effect.