Most Viewed Year 1908

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

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

Footage of the expedition leaving Antarctica from New Zealand shot by government cameraman James McDonald. His excellency Admiral Sir Wilmot...

Two big game hunters are on safari in the jungle with their African guide. They observe zebras, ostrich and a hippopotamus, and catch a small monkey...

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

Our picture relates to a crime committed by a Gorilla who escapes from his cage and through circumstantial evidence a young man, whom we will call in...

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little...

On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

Early Balkan footage.

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

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

A young boy’s toys come to life through animation.

A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography,...

The first successful motion picture in natural color, filmed with Kinemacolor. It is an 8 minute short film directed by George Albert Smith of...

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

Images from Grängesberg's mines. The ore is loaded onto trains and transported to the port of Oxelösund.