16 November 1908 Factual, Music 4 mins
Four women are drinking champagne at a couple of tables. A man comes into their midst and sings the title song in this sound-film from Deutsch Bioskop.
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Germany 16 November 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
03 November 1908
A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
13 September 1908
This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of fireworks, flames and fountains as well as the customary fairies, magic and dancing.
28 September 1908
Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
01 January 1908
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.
06 October 1908
The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly encounters every conceivable insult to his suit's integrity: a coalman bumps into him, a waiter spills food on him, a painter walks into him.
25 October 1908
Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.
25 July 1908
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
21 December 1908
A mixture of stop-motion and live action film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals in blackface.
02 May 1908
In this screaming comic is shown the amount of mischief that can be accomplished by one small boy. (Moving Picture World synopsis.
09 June 1908
Stable hostler Joe loves his wife Annie, but she leaves him and their child for a wealthy gentleman, only to die destitute in London, where Joe's enduring love brings her solace in her final moments.
29 August 1908
King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.
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