ປີ 1908 - 11

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

A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but it is too late.

Short film about a magic ride

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of fireworks, flames and fountains as well as the customary fairies, magic and dancing.

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hopefully one day a complete print will turn up but until then at least we have this. The film starts off in some sort of bakery as the boss starts giving orders and then a bit later we see a young man pull out a violin he has been hiding and start to play it. The film then flashes to another location but this is where it cuts off so I'm not certain where the story went from here.

Silent film from Georges Méliès, presumed to be lost.

1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

Three woman playing a game of catch leads to one of them exposing herself as she gets stuck whilst peering out the window.

Footage of the Mainz carnival procession.

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken.

The distressing plight of a young man who, dissatisfied with the food his wife serves him, eats horse meat, develops various equine mannerisms, and eventually lands in the hospital.

Fairy-tale adaptation.

Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Pathé's version of José Zorrilla's play, Don Juan Tenorio.

"Lejonjakten" 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 cruel parody on Danish producer Ole Olsen's "Løvejagten" (1907) which was at the time banned in Denmark (due to the fact that a lion and other animals were actually killed in the film) but shown in Sweden. In the student version two actors dressed up as a lion and a kangaroo get shot by hunters, but the hunters themselves soon get arrested by the police, an allusion to a recent conflict between the students and the local police.

Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.

A comedic short film.

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering children.