The best movies 1908

A tour of the city of Camagüey divided into three segments - "A visit to Camagüey", "Typical scenes", and "Farewell Camagüey".

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property,...

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

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

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an...

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...

Kinemacolor

De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.

At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and...

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

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 very grateful and, to show...

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

The film depicts the main events in the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. She married Francis II, King of France. After her husband's death in 1560, Mary...

Images of Sicily.

A broken-hearted husband thinks about the past as he sits by the fireplace.

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment....

Signed by neurology professor Camillo Negro and cinematographer Roberto Omegna for the Società Anonima Ambrosio of Turin, Neuropathology is...

This film with a highly offensive and racist title tells the story of Jose, a handsome young Mexican, who leaves his home in the Sierra Madre...

"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...

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a...