Le Bon Invalide et les Enfants

Le Bon Invalide et les Enfants 1908

4.00

When a bully steals their ball, a kind war veteran lends the saddened children a helping hand. And a leg or two…

1908

The Fairy Dragonfly

The Fairy Dragonfly 1908

1

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed lost. No English-language release is known for this film,[1] but the translated title The Fairy Dragonfly has been used in film reference.

1908

Secret Suitcase

Secret Suitcase 1908

1

De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.

1908

The Cattle Rustlers

The Cattle Rustlers 1908

1

A posse forms to track down a band of cattle rustlers after a rancher offers $500 reward for their capture.

1908

The Magic Table

The Magic Table 1908

5.00

A family tries to eat dinner, but the table vanishes and reappears, changes shape and location, all in the usual manner laid down by Melies, but here copied by Segundo de Chomón.

1908

Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria Arrive in Stockholm

Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria Arrive in Stockholm 1908

1

Actuality film showing Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, and Princess Maria Pavlovna arriving in Stockholm in 1908. Scenes may include arrival at the train station, greetings by officials, ceremonial procession through city streets, crowds.

1908

The Bee and the Rose

The Bee and the Rose 1908

4.20

This French film isn't that well known today but it will mainly appeal to those film buffs with a thing for early cinema or those wanting to see some fantasy sequences but those there will probably be disappointed. The film runs just a few seconds short of four minutes as several women are dressed up as bees dancing around their hive. The "Queen Bee" goes to take a nap and she's attacked by a spider. The spider sequence is what gets this film a mention by fantasy fans but sadly this scene takes place around the 3:13 mark and lasts just a few seconds.

1908

The Vain Parlor Maid

The Vain Parlor Maid 1908

4.60

A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, thus revealing her own naked body, and she compares the various parts of her body with those of the statue. The master of the house enters the studio. When he sees his housemaid naked, he tells her to go into the next room, and then goes into that room himself.

1908

Wolf Hunt

Wolf Hunt 1908

4.00

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but released in 1908. It was made at the request of Teddy Roosevelt, who saw coyotes being caught in Oklahoma *by hand*, and folks back east didn't believe him. While this movie is called "The Wolf Hunt", it was actually coyotes being caught, not wolves.

1908

Hamlet

Hamlet 1908

2.50

An Italian adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

1908

Drama at the Puppets' House

Drama at the Puppets' House 1908

6.20

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.

1908

The Professor's Secret

The Professor's Secret 1908

1

Acting on the Darwin theory, that man descended from a monkey, a scientist experiments towards turning man back to the monkey stage. He inoculates a number of persons with the preparation and after the subjects reach their homes the reversing process begins, and they become monkified. Their antics are uproariously funny. The scientist is unable to turn them back to human beings again, so they are collected in a large cage and places on exhibition. Here they are visited by an ape dressed in human attire. (Moving Picture World)

1908

The Hotel Mix-Up

The Hotel Mix-Up 1908

1

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

1908