Most Viewed Year 1908 - 5

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

While Monsieur and his friends are making music, a fire breaks out in the apartment. The little girl is saved, but the emotion causes the mother to...

The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones,...

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little...

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph...

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel...

Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he...

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

Short reportage

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...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

Three woman playing a game of catch leads to one of them exposing herself as she gets stuck whilst peering out the window.

In this simple melodrama, a boy loses his beloved girl, hence dying of a broken heart. The film presents advanced techniques in several fields.

In this picture we see how the artists engaged to pose for the pictures make the scene so realistic that they get themselves into all kinds of...

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...

Early slapstick short from Louis Feuillade involving runaways, except that, instead of it being a runaway horse (see Griffith's THE CURTAIN POLE for...

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.