Most Viewed Year 1908 - 24

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

A very wise inventor has perfected an electric device whereby he can control the velocity of everything in sight when he turns the crank attached to...

A young beggar girl and her aged mother are tramping along the road when a motor car passing swiftly by knocks down the older woman just in front of...

In this interesting little drama we are brought in contact with a man who is one of the highly respected citizens of a little mountain village, while...

A quartet are making merry at a feast, and one of them is so full of liquor that he falls from his chair. At this his companions conceive, a clever...

A raffle booth at a country fair is shown, at which live stock is being drawn for, in full operation. The good, folk gathered about hold numbers and...

Originally it was called White City because when it opened, all the buildings were painted white. It was a fairgrounds, intended to celebrate the...

A submarine coming into port is seen gliding smoothly on the water and the little rowboat which is to bring the captain of the vessel to his post is...

A young woman is seen in thin film laughing at a youth, who, having fallen desperately in love with her at first sight, is ardently pressing his...

A woman gets a dog from the pound. But her husband, jealous that the dog is getting so much attention, pays a man on the street to steal the dog. The...

Hélène, the daughter of a wealthy shipowner, receives a letter from Jean, her lover, who wants to see her to find out her father's...

Silent film footage from late Qing dynasty China, depicting everyday scenes.

Only the visual elements are known to survive from this 1908 recording of a duet from Franz von Suppe's early one-act operetta. As is usual with...

Here's something a little lighter than usual from the series of three-minute musical shorts produced in Germany from 1906 to. 1910 - twenty years...

These extraordinary views of life and landscape in Beijing were filmed during the last years of China's Qing dynasty, before the 1911 Xinhai...

A mischievous boy steals the calf's head from a drunk man, who has been sent by his wife to buy it. The boy then places the ruminant's head on the...

Fairy-tale adaptation.

Silent pull the mourners behind the coffins of their unfortunate colleagues past the camera.

Arrival of the Christian Slaves: The captives are brought before Nero. He chooses one fair maiden to serve in his palace. The others are condemned to...

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...