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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined...

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

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...

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

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

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

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

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially hand coloured and shows several Japanese...