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.
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Germany 23 September 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
08 March 1908
Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
01 August 1908
A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.
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.
23 May 1908
A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.
19 April 1908
Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.
08 June 1908
Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.
27 May 1908
Silent film directed by Mario Caserini for the Società Italiana Cines in 1908. It should not be confused, as is often the case, with the film "Abbandonata" from June 1910, whose director is unknown and was produced by Itala Films (a company Mario Caserini never worked for).
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.
02 January 1908
A tour of the city of Camagüey divided into three segments - "A visit to Camagüey", "Typical scenes", and "Farewell Camagüey".
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