On a dock, men and women are bustling about. The fish is unloaded and brought to the covered market. The fish merchants gut the fish with dexterity, before salting it. While the men weigh the fish, the women rinse out their clothes and tools in the port’s water.
Tonbild (early form of sync sound film). The music is the sextet from Act Two of Lucia di Lammermoor, sung in German.
Early Brazilian silent film documenting the 1908 Carnival in Rio.
Ready, steady, relay! This newsreel captures the pepped-up mood of the camera-conscious youngsters assembled for the South London Schools Sports event at Crystal Palace in 1908. Judicious editing succinctly conveys the excitement of the relay race as the competitors traverse the "finest and safest running track" - as a contemporary newspaper article described the Edwardian sports facility.
Actuality of Crown Princess Margareta’s 2 June 1908 visit to Lund: arrival at the station, carriage procession along Klostergatan past the Grand, scenes at the Cathedral, crowds along Kyrkogatan, and stops in the Botanical Garden and at Kulturen.
Topical actuality documenting the aftermath of the Lisbon Regicide on 1 February 1908, when King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luís Filipe were assassinated in Lisbon. The film would have shown funeral processions, national mourning, or reconstructed scenes, circulated internationally as part of Pathé’s newsreel-style series. Preserved in Sweden’s 1908 film catalog, it represents one of the earliest cinematic records of a European royal assassination.
Actuality coverage of the London 1908 Olympic Games, issued by Pathé and released in Sweden as Olympiska spelen i London 1908. The reel includes ceremonial scenes in the royal box and events at the White City Stadium. The Games were officially opened by King Edward VII on 13 July 1908, and surviving Pathé footage shows the royal arrival and stands alongside athletics highlights.
Journey of a camel caravan encountering a tribe of Bicharyn Arabs who perform and offer a glimpse of their children.
An old farmer named Nhô Anastácio arrives in the capital for the first time. While visiting Rio de Janeiro's tourist attractions, he meets a singer and flirts with her until his wife arrives from the countryside. (Synopsis based on the book "Este Mundo É um Pandeiro . a Chanchada de Getulio a Jk" by Sergio Augusto)
Four sturdy moving men are busy at work taking down huge cupboards, trunks, beds, etc., and are feeling very hot and thirsty, when all at once the lid of a badly fastened basket giving way, they discover a snug nest of bottles of wine.
Typical story where the father (a farmer) of a beautiful girl desires a wealthy man as a son-in-law and rejects her poor but honest suitor.
A little girl, who is preparing to receive her first holy communion, is seen leaving the church with the rest of her companions and starting home with her nurse maid. She being of a jovial disposition, we see her rolling a hoop, skipping rope and romping until she is completely exhausted. Coming to a spring in the park, she stops and bathes her head in the cold water, and not being physically capable of withstanding the shock, she contracts a cold. By the time the maid gets her home she is extremely ill, and her mother puts her to bed and sends for a doctor, who, upon arriving, prescribes and pronounces her case as serious. The little sufferer is compelled to remain in bed for days, and when the time comes for her to go to her first communion she is unable to attend.
Precious footage of the 1908 Olympics shows the main venue, White City Stadium, with brief glimpses of pole vaulting, gymnastics, high jump, swimming, throwing the discus, tug of war and women’s archery.
Early swedish film.
One of the most popular of all Japan folk-tales is the famous undersea myth of Urashima Taro, the fisherman who is taken by a turtle to an underwater kingdom; in the palace of the Dragon King, he dreams for three centuries before returning to find himself in the distant future.
Travelogue about the Peak Tram in Hong Kong. A journey with this funicular from the top to the end point, the city below. The camera is in front of the tram, so that only the rails and the landscape are visible, and the effect of a roller coaster is created.
Short comedy about a man who dreams that he runs over everyone with his skates. A man falls asleep on the sidewalk and dreams that he gets into trouble with his homemade skates because he runs over everyone. He is woken up with a garden hose by two mischievous boys. When he takes the garden hose away, a police officer gets wet, which puts the man in trouble after all.
International Workers' Day and the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Roskilde. May Day demonstration and flower procession in Kristianstad and the Roskilde Festival in Karlshamn.
