17 December 1908 Factual 1 mins
Originally it was called White City because when it opened, all the buildings were painted white. It was a fairgrounds, intended to celebrate the 1904 Entente Cordiale between France and Great Britain, that would, a decade later, leading to the unbreakable web of alliances that would cause the First World War.
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United Kingdom 17 December 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
19 December 1908
A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.
06 May 1908
At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite.
15 September 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
07 April 1908
A gorilla escapes from its master on a ship, breaks into a young woman's home, and kills her. The woman's fiancé, Jim, who had visited earlier, is framed for the murder by the police.
18 July 1908
A young man is seen entering his room and from the many expressions on his worn face one could not doubt that he is just returning from one grand night with the boys, and is in no condition to be annoyed or disturbed.
01 August 1908
A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.
13 October 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
07 March 1908
With the family of Mr. Phlipp there is employed that wrecker of domestic serenity, a pretty French maid, whose trim figure and cherry lips are simply irresistible.
29 December 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
11 December 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a lover in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
26 June 1908
The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children.
02 October 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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