Year 1908 - 25

A woman gets a dog from the pound. But her husband, jealous that the dog is getting so much attention, pays a man on the street to steal the dog. The women put a reward which attracts the attention of the thief.

Short reportage

Short reportage

View on the Čech Bridge from the Pařížská Street. At the bridge head there is a group of the city officials reading their speeches. The festive group of people walks over the bridge towards Letná. Then follows a scene from the opposite side of the bridge, from the right bank of the Vltava River. The group of people then walks back from the Letná side.

On a rainy and windy day there is marching a procession of priests and town dignitaries. A big community of priests is consecrating the foundation stone of the memorial of František Palacký. The Prague Archbishop František Schönborn is blessing the foundation stone. The Priests are lying down blessed stone cube components and form them into one big unit.

Hélène, the daughter of a wealthy shipowner, receives a letter from Jean, her lover, who wants to see her to find out her father's answer about their marriage. The father refuses and Jean must embark. The father goes to the boat and sabotages it.

Silent film footage from late Qing dynasty China, depicting everyday scenes.

Early sound short from Deutsche Bioscop GmbH.

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.

A masher approaches a lady on the street who is elegantly dressed, but when he gets near enough to see her face he changes his mind so suddenly that he is glad to get away. The ugly woman passes on, however, and on reaching the store of a beauty doctor, decides to step in. The M.D. promises her complete satisfaction and gets busy promptly. First he subjects her mud-colored marcelled hair to a treatment, and in a little while she has beautiful raven-black hair. He massages her face and removes all dermatological defects, and finally gets to work on her teeth; in a few more seconds the woman emerges from the place a fine specimen of natural brunette beauty, with teeth like so many pearls. This time when she meets a gentleman on the street he promptly offers his arm.

French film.

Film about an inventor going wild

Footage of a Milan carneval in 1908

Although it is very near Christmas, when everybody should rejoice, a sailor bound for a dangerous expedition takes leave of his wife, and the poor woman is seen following with dim eyes the departing ship, her heart apparently heavy with grief. After having cried and prayed on a cross, the grass-widow returns to the farm to resume her duties and takes a sack of wheat to the next mill. The miller, knowing of the sailor's departure, and finding the lass very agreeable and charming, after having seen to the wheat bag, gives his whole attention to the young woman, and he does not seem to mind very much the clumsy advances made by the workingman. They part after a rather excited confab, and have evidently made an appointment for the evening at the church, for it is a Christmas celebration. We follow the two young people in the chapel, then to a bonfire dance, and lastly we see them both driving away in a country cart.

Documentary short showing traditional marriage celebration in rural France.

Song from an Operetta.

Shots of Morocco, including a harbour town with a fortress.

Silent pull the mourners behind the coffins of their unfortunate colleagues past the camera.

A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.