Most Viewed Year 1908 - 7

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

The Baseball Fan is a Comedy short.

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

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

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

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

Max, a young man about town, splits his trousers while getting ready to go out one night. After applying some rather risky repairs without taking the...

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...

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

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

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

Some jubilant young men have decided to end their evening of pleasure by taking supper in a restaurant after having passed a few hours at a...