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Movies: Popular Movies of 1908

Movies in chronological context: 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1908th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 908th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1908, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time. ()

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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 Electric Hotel(1908)

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

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Segundo de Chomón - With Julienne Mathieu, Segundo de Chomón

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.

Directed by Charles le Bargy, André Calmettes - With Charles le Bargy, Albert Dieudonné, Albert Lambert, Berthe Bovy, Charles Lorrain, Gabrielle Robinne, ...

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest(1908)

7min | Drama, Action, Thriller
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.

Directed by J. Searle Dawley - With Henry B. Walthall, D. W. Griffith

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

Excursion to the Moon(1908)

7min | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

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

Directed by Segundo de Chomón

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.

Directed by D. W. Griffith, Billy Bitzer - With Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Gladys Egan, Charles Inslee

Long Distance Wireless Photography(1908)

6min | Science Fiction, Comedy
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?

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Prussian Culture(1908)

8min
2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Film about politically motivated violence in the Kingdom of Prussia.

The Runaway Horse(1908)

7min | Action, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

A laundry man parks his horse-drawn cart to make a delivery. While he is inside, his horse sees a bag of oats and starts to eat them. By the time the man comes back outside, the horse has eaten a whole bag of oats, and has so much energy that he begins to race out of control.

Directed by Louis J. Gasnier

The Puppet's Nightmare(1908)

2min | Comedy, Animation
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.

Directed by Émile Cohl

A Very Fine Lady(1908)

4min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she walks though the streets of Paris.

Directed by Louis Feuillade, Romeo Bosetti - With Renée Carl
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Stenka Razin(1908)

10min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Stenka Razin is the leader of a group of outlaws who live a life of revelry and carousing along the Volga River and in the nearby forests. When Razin becomes distracted by a captured foreign princess and starts to dote on her, his men are displeased, feeling that he is neglecting them and their usual activities. Soon they come up with a plot, in the hopes of turning Razin against the princess.

Directed by Vladimir Romashkov

Drama at the Puppets' House(1908)

4min | Comedy, Animation, Crime
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle maiden gets herself into numerous embarrassing complications with her host of admirers, but the artist with lightning rapidity overcomes all obstacles and brings the maiden out victorious.

Directed by Émile Cohl

Dreams of Toyland(1908)

7min | Drama, Animation, Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Arthur Melbourne Cooper's animation showing a boy's dream of his toys coming to life uses a live action framing device for the dream sequence which uses stop motion techniques to animate a child's toys.

Directed by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper

The Celebration on Hürriyet(1908)

2min | Documentary
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Early Balkan footage.

In the Bogie Man's Cave(1908)

5min | Horror, Fantasy
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is the grisly turn when the monster chops up his servant for a steaming pot of stew. But the Bogie Man’s guilty conscience weighs on him, plaguing his sleep with even more fantastic visions of just deserts. (Max Goldberg, Fandor)

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Dog and His Various Merits(1908)

2min
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

We see a working dog, a beggar's dog, a shepherd's dog, and a milkman's dog. The working dog is locked inside a large wire wheel; the dog runs inside the wheel, turning it to run a machine. The beggar's dog pulls its legless master, who's sitting on a low cart, down the street. The shepherd's dog keeps a flock of at least 20 sheep in a tight circle. The milkman's dog pulls a cart on which is mounted a large cylinder of milk. A lad leads the dog to a house with a Dutch door; the top half of the door opens, and the lady of the house hands out a pitcher that the boy fills as the dog waits.

Celebration on the Occasion of Young Turks' Revolution in Bitola(1908)

1min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Early Balkan footage.

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

The Mischance of a Photographer(1908)

3min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

Directed by Georges Méliès

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

Parade on the Occasion of the Hürriyet(1908)

4min | Documentary
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Early Balkan footage.

The Defilee of Army Orchestra, Carriages and Horsemen(1908)

1min | Documentary
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Early Balkan footage.

Turks' Hearing Speech on Hürriyet(1908)

2min | Documentary
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Early Balkan footage.

The Knight of Black Art(1908)

6min | Fantasy
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The King and the Jester(1908)

5min
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

Directed by Georges Méliès

Troubles of a Grass Widower(1908)

10min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

A housewife tires of her husband's annoying behavior and returns to her mother. At first, the husband is quite pleased to have the house all to himself. But he quickly discovers that even the most basic domestic chores can be fraught with difficulty.

Directed by Max Linder - With Max Linder

The Frog(1908)

3min | Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

Directed by Segundo de Chomón - With Julienne Mathieu

Legend of a Ghost(1908)

15min | Fantasy, Horror
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of the graves. She wishes to rush away, but the ghost appearing compels her to remain. He explains to the terrified girl that she must go to the kingdom of Satan and get a bottle of the Water of Life, which she must bring back to him. The girl consents to do as he desires and starts forth on her expedition after the precious fluid. She summons a lot of soldiers and friends to her aid, and we follow the whole army down into the bowels of the earth. (Moving Picture World)

Directed by Segundo de Chomón
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