1908 Movies

Silent film footage from late Qing dynasty China, depicting everyday scenes.

Cited as "the first silent vampire film", it is actually a pirate film and has nothing to do with vampires.

Jeannot sees a lithograph of a ballet dancer and decides he wants one of them and heads to the big city. Jeanette decides she can be one and likewise...

A early German Piccolo-Duett.

A couple of performers perform the big love number from the Oscar Strauss operetta.

Four women are drinking champagne at a couple of tables. A man comes into their midst and sings the title song in this sound-film from Deutsch Bioskop...

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 panorama...

Early sound short from Deutsche Bioscop GmbH.

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.

Only the visual elements are known to survive from this 1908 recording of a duet from Franz von Suppe's early one-act operetta. As is usual with these...

Here's something a little lighter than usual from the series of three-minute musical shorts produced in Germany from 1906 to. 1910 - twenty years befo...

German Tonbild.

Early short film about a big family going on an outing.

A masher approaches a lady on the street who is elegantly dressed, but when he gets near enough to see her face he changes his mind so suddenly that h...

Paris has the unique distinction of possessing women cabbies; the scheme of making them chauffeurs (or, more properly, "chauffeuses") meets with rathe...

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 Revolutio...