Most Viewed Year 1908 - 17

The Baseball Fan is a Comedy short.

Here is seen an old miser preparing for bed, but before retiring he counts his money and hides it under his mattress. He is just dropping off to...

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...

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...

Created by the young but obviously ambitious French production company Lux Film, founded just two years before by pioneer Henri Joly. The film was...

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...

A couple of performers perform the big love number from the Oscar Strauss operetta.

Early sound short from Deutsche Bioscop GmbH.

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.

German Tonbild.

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

It is the only known surviving film footage from the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker-sponsored expedition to record American Indian life in the west, filmed...

Kinemacolor

A short film starring Clément Mégé.

Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema screen was sword-master Miyamoto Musashi,...

A drunk dreams that he is carried off to Hell.

Recording of the voice of an African man.

Footage of a Milan carneval in 1908

A pesky fly and the determination to get it.