Most Viewed Year 1908 - 7

Released the same week than Selig's version, they both were the first film versions of the popular play, adapted from Ellen Wood's 1861 novel.

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

A housewife tires of her husband's annoying behavior and returns to her mother. At first, the husband is quite pleased to have the house all to...

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...

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

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...

A band of musicians stage a fake murder as a practical joke for their grumpy, curious neighbor.

In one of his dreams, Don Quixote is fighting monsters. Having vanquished them, he goes to put on his armor, only to be met with a succession of...

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

A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.

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

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

The Baseball Fan is a Comedy short.

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

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

King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

Silent film from Georges Méliés. It is presumed to be lost.