Tahun 1908 - 20

An art student inherits a sum of money and has his fellow students over to celebrate. Chaos ensues.

A young woman sitting on a bench in the public park is annoyed by an old man sitting next to her and paying her persistent attention. Resenting this ridiculous flirtation, the young lady rises to leave, but the old man tries to stop her, so she pushes him down and is soon seen seeking more peaceful quarters. The old flirt, disgusted, starts reading his paper, when his attention is attracted by an advertisement of some wonderful pills. (Moving Picture World)

Peter Elfelt filming fashion.

Inventor Jacob Ellehammer's first attempts at flying.

"The angel in this film is a little girl who is struggling hard to keep alive her old mother, who is lying ill on a pile of rags. She tries in various piteous ways to scrape together-enough to keep her parent alive, and one scene shows her on the steps of the church, where are also gathered a number of beggars of various descriptions. As the people leave the church they pass through and give their mite as they will; in this way the girl receives a few coins and with this she purchases some refreshment for her mother. With skipping, joyful steps the little angel goes back to the hovel and bends over the form. But as she reaches down her mother suddenly falls back, and in another moment is dead. The child, dazed and taken completely by terrible surprise, quakes for a few seconds with emotion then loses her reason..." Moving Picture World, March 1908

1908 French short silent Christmas film by Georges Méliès, which is now presumed lost. The film, combining American ideas about Santa Claus with Méliès's fantasy style and a modern touch, followed the adventures of a young girl, Polly, one Christmas night, as she escapes kidnappers, travels to Santa's palace, and—by changing places with a large doll—goes with Santa on a giftgiving journey by airplane.

“Kvinnliga akademiska fotbollsklubben Virginia: Ko-misk!” is one of five films (three of which are now lost) that were made by students at the University of Lund, Sweden, as a part of their 1908 carnival. The film is a parody of female students engaging in sports.

The King has the archbishop murdered, then repents.

The Magistrate's Conscience - A drama from Pathé Frères.

After a fight in the forest against customs officers, one of the smugglers is denied of his share of the profits and thrown away. Making his way into the village, he will ask for help to the wife of the customs officer he assaulted.

Pierrot and his Columbine are seated at a little feast with another friend, when Pierrot becomes jealous of his friend's attentions to the girl and orders him from the room. The friend complies promptly and the lover, in despondence, begins to drink until he is almost helpless. In this condition he wanders out.

A thief hides inside a huge fake crocodile and crawls away, creating fear wherever he goes.

Early swedish film.

Lost film, one of several adaptation of Shakespeare's play from the silent era. Do not confuse with Mario Caserini's version, released in May of the same year.

A 1908 short film

In this interesting little drama we are brought in contact with a man who is one of the highly respected citizens of a little mountain village, while in reality he is living a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde existence. We see him leave his home and go on his way up into the mountain to hunt. When he reaches a remote part in the forest he takes a black cape and mask from under a rock and puts them on, thus concealing his identity.

A raffle booth at a country fair is shown, at which live stock is being drawn for, in full operation. The good, folk gathered about hold numbers and as the wheel turns a clown distributes among the winners, chickens, rabbits and geese. One portly gentleman wins a pig and becomes so elated on receiving his prize that with some friends he goes to a café to drink. He indulges by far too freely and spills many bottles of liquor into the pig's anatomy, via its mouth, until the animal seems to be intoxicated too.