1908 Movie Trailers
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Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy Trailer (1908)
01 December 1908
Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
French Cops Learning English Trailer (1908)
26 July 1908
The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.
The Princess in the Vase Trailer (1908)
27 February 1908
In ancient Egypt, a princess is executed after being caught in an affair with a Theban warrior, with her soul sealed inside a vase.
The Call of the Wild Trailer (1908)
27 October 1908
George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team.
La Dolores Trailer (1908)
02 January 1908
A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father fooling around with Melchor, an unscrupulous womanizer, being disgraced and losing everything, young Dolores is forced to take to the roads in search of work.
The Magic Hoop Trailer (1908)
23 November 1908
Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination.
Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker Trailer (1908)
28 March 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a charity worker in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Un crocodile cambrioleur Trailer (1908)
06 August 1908
A thief hides inside a huge fake crocodile and crawls away, creating fear wherever he goes.
The Hotel of Silence Trailer (1908)
10 October 1908
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.
Le Violon Trailer (1908)
10 January 1908
While Monsieur and his friends are making music, a fire breaks out in the apartment. The little girl is saved, but the emotion causes the mother to lose her reason.
L'Invention du professeur Brick-à-Brack Trailer (1908)
20 July 1908
Film about an inventor going wild
Drama in a Gypsy Camp Near Moscow Trailer (1908)
20 December 1908
Two gypsy lovers sneak away from camp at night. The man proposes, the woman refuses. He then murders her with a knife.
Legend of a Ghost Trailer (1908)
11 May 1908
A young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of the graves.
The King of the Cannibal Islands Trailer (1908)
15 April 1908
Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.
The Black Viper Trailer (1908)
21 July 1908
A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk.
Chasse en Abyssinie: Chasse au Lion Trailer (1908)
01 January 1908
A lion hunt filmed in 1908 by the aristocrat Hyacinthe Octavie Frédérique Louise Irénée Rolande Pirmez.
Paper Cock-a-Doodles Trailer (1908)
25 October 1908
Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.
Her First Adventure Trailer (1908)
18 March 1908
A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter wanders off, attracted by the music from a pair of gypsies performing in the street.
The Pumpkin Race Trailer (1908)
20 January 1908
A pumpkin vendor returns with her loaded car. Two pranksters overturn the car, and what follows is a truly hilarious and eventful pumpkin hunt.
The Broken Violin Trailer (1908)
24 April 1908
If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment.
Donkey Skin Trailer (1908)
18 November 1908
A wealthy man who possess a magical donkey desires to marry his own daughter. In exchange for her consent, she asks him to kill the donkey, the source of his wealth.
The Stage Rustler Trailer (1908)
10 July 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a man in a bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
A Disastrous Flirtation Trailer (1908)
29 August 1908
The hero, who fancies himself a ladies' man, cannot resist winking at every comely lass who passes his way.
Charlotte Corday Trailer (1908)
06 November 1908
An early account of Marat's murder, and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Charlotte Corday.
The Legend of the Spinner Trailer (1908)
16 March 1908
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms into a spider that will forever spinning its web.
Oh! What Lungs Trailer (1908)
22 August 1908
An emaciated youth calls upon a physician who pumps air into his lungs until his chest is abnormal in size.
Pharmaceutical Hallucinations Trailer (1908)
18 November 1908
There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip.
A Christmas Carol Trailer (1908)
09 December 1908
A lost film. Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter.
Elastic Transformation Trailer (1908)
21 November 1908
A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.
The Stolen Jewels Trailer (1908)
29 September 1908
It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of a case of jewels at the home of Robert Jenkins, a wealthy stockbroker, and although they were eventually brought to light, it was through a most remarkable accident.
The Miser Trailer (1908)
02 April 1908
This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events.
Martyrdom of Louis XVII Trailer (1908)
27 November 1908
This richly colored picture revives an interesting incident in French history and shows us some of the famous events connected with the overthrow of the power of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
At the Crossroads of Life Trailer (1908)
02 July 1908
At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man of the cloth who has no time for those in the acting profession.
Falsely Accused! Trailer (1908)
18 January 1908
A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography, and our story opens with the old man in his library studying out the plans of his invention.
Grandmother's Tale and Child's Dream Trailer (1908)
23 August 1908
The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they begin dreaming of an angel standing over their bed and whisking them off to a land of giant toys.
Mr. Jones at the Ball Trailer (1908)
25 December 1908
Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife.
For Love of Gold Trailer (1908)
21 August 1908
It is often said there is honor among thieves, but not so, as we shall see in this story. Two denizens of the underworld are seen in their squalid furnished room planning a robbery.
A New Way of Traveling Trailer (1908)
17 January 1908
Steampunk fantasia of interplanetary travel and submarine life.
Where the Breakers Roar Trailer (1908)
22 September 1908
A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife.
Secret Suitcase Trailer (1908)
28 August 1908
De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.
The Chinese Shadows Trailer (1908)
11 October 1908
At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.
Nellie, the Beautiful Housemaid Trailer (1908)
16 May 1908
Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)
The Fortune Favors the Brave Trailer (1908)
31 October 1908
A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family.
Policemen as We Portray Them / Policemen as They Are Trailer (1908)
01 September 1908
Overview of ideas about the police on the occasion of an attack on the bourgeois by Apaches gangsters.
A Picture Suite from the Life of King Oscar II Trailer (1908)
22 February 1908
Compilation of actuality footage and short films capturing public and royal scenes from the life of King Oscar II of Sweden — including arrival at Expositions, jubilees, parades, naval activities, and official receptions.
Classmates Trailer (1908)
01 February 1908
Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both.
La Nouvelle bonne Trailer (1908)
21 June 1908
A newly-hired housekeeper turns out to be too clumsy and stupid to do her job.