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1908 Movies

Public list by WPS with 104 movies or TV shows/series

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Fantasmagorie(1908)

2min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 55 votes)

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with all its wild transformations, sees our protagonist materialize a movie theatre, meet an elephant and escape from jail; A morphing, stream-of-consciousness delight.

Directed by Émile Cohl

The Assassination of the Duke de Guise(1908)

17min | History, Drama
2.7/5 (with 22 votes)

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

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest(1908)

2.8/5 (with 17 votes)

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 away with it.

The Electric Hotel(1908)

9min | Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

The Taming of the Shrew(1908)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

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

The Adventures of Dollie(1908)

NR
| 12min | Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

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

The Thieving Hand(1908)

6min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

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 his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', where he buys him a new arm. The recipient soon discovers that this new arm has a will of its own - causing him considerable embarrassment.

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton - With Paul Panzer

The Greaser's Gauntlet(1908)

17min

Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States. On leaving, his dear old mother bestows upon him her blessing, presenting him with a pair of gauntlets, upon the dexter wrist of which she has embroidered a Latin Cross.

The Zulu's Heart(1908)

8min | Action
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

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

Ingomar, the Barbarian(1908)

13min | Comedy

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

Excursion to the Moon(1908)

2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

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

Directed by Segundo de Chomón

Pharmaceutical Hallucinations(1908)

13min | Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

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 his cave, and a fairy appears -- then there's this massive feast with about a dozen people. Then it ends.

Directed by Georges Méliès
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A Visit to the Seaside(1908)

8min
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of Brighton, showing people doing everyday activities. It is ranked of high historical importance. Kinemacolor later influenced and replaced by Technicolor, which was used from 1916 to 1952.

Where the Breakers Roar(1908)

9min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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

The Last Days of Pompeii(1908)

20min | Drama, History
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer Jone. Glaucus purchases Nydia, the blind and long-suffering slave. Nydia falls in love with Glaucus and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with her-- In fact, a poison which will cause violent insanity. Produced by Turin-based Ambrosio Films.

The New Lord of the Village(1908)

9min
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then there's another scene in the village... and that's it.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Song of the Shirt(1908)

11min | Drama
1.8/5 (with 3 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Romance of a Jewess(1908)

12min | Comedy
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1908)

16min | Fantasy, Horror

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Otis Turner - With Hobart Bosworth, Betty Harte

The Vaquero's Vow(1908)

13min | Comedy

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

The Clubman and the Tramp(1908)

17min | Comedy

Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

French Cops Learning English(1908)

7min
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

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

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Girl from Arles(1908)

18min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.

The Valet's Wife(1908)

6min | Comedy

Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.

Concealing a Burglar(1908)

11min | Comedy

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

After Many Years(1908)

17min | Drama

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

His First Job(1908)

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Tempest(1908)

12min | Fantasy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage Caliban. Then Prospero uses his powers to create a tempest that shipwrecks some of the persons who caused his exile.

Directed by Percy Stow

The Dream of an Opium Fiend(1908)

5min | Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

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 for something to drink and he is given wine, which he does not care for, and he is finally given some bottled beer and a glass, but he complains that the glass is too small and he gets a very large sized glass receptacle, into which his wife and maid servant pour the contents of the bottle. As he is about to drink the glass passes from his hand mysteriously, sailing through the room and out of the window to the moon….

Directed by Georges Méliès

Long Distance Wireless Photography(1908)

2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration: he starts machines whirring, and projects a painting of three women onto a large screen; suddenly the women begin to move. The customers are impressed. First the women sits in the special seat: she's projected onto the screen, and her good nature comes out in the laughing image. Then it's the man's turn, but the machine discloses a vastly different nature in him. Will his reaction threaten our proprietor's inventions?

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