The best movies 1908 Pagina 18

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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...

A young man walks into a café and hears the Merry Widow Waltz being played for the first time. He immediately buys a copy. Music in hand, he...

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...

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

A Spanish dancer, in front of an inn in the Spanish mountains, is courted by a smuggler, who asks her to marry him. She agrees. Later, in the...

A bungling bumpkin fails at a number of jobs in this slapstick comedy - before he finds his true calling.

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

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...

A cine-camera placed on the front side of a tram films the left bank communication under Letná. The tram passes by a cable way station to...

What is more miserable than love-blighted life? For the heart that truly loves can never forget. Such is the sad fate of the hero of this Biograph...

This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures in which great ingenuity on the part of the...

Scenes of islanders and seabirds on the remote island of St. Kilda.

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1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is presumed lost. No English-language release is known for this film,[1] but the...

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

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

The hero, who fancies himself a ladies' man, cannot resist winking at every comely lass who passes his way. Unfortunately, he winks once too often,...

The Proposal: The gentleman burglar walking with his lady love. They admire the grandeur and beauty of nature. He proposes and she accepts. She does...

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

A courtly drama of a bridegroom arrested for being intimate with the queen. To secure his release, his future bride sleeps with his rival. The film...