23 September 1908 Factual, Music 3 mins
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 before most people think of the birth of talkies. Instead of serious music, it's a duet from an operetta, THE DOLLAR PRINCESS.
Watch the official Die Dollar-Prinzessin 1908 trailer in HD below.
Germany 23 September 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
03 December 1908
There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip.
28 September 1908
Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
01 January 1908
Three woman playing a game of catch leads to one of them exposing herself as she gets stuck whilst peering out the window.
01 August 1908
A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.
29 August 1908
King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.
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.
07 November 1908
Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage Caliban.
08 March 1908
The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones, the mate of Flint's ship, the "Walrus," and they send Black Dog, one of the crew, to tip Billy Bones to the "black spot" at the Admiral Ben Bow Inn; but Billy Bones drives Black Dog away, and will have nothing to do with him.
01 January 1908
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.
03 August 1908
It depicts the notorious criminal incident that had occured in Rio de Janeiro.
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.
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