This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially hand coloured and shows several Japanese characters and eventually a worm change into a butterfly which while flapping it's wings changes colours as it flies.
Watch the official Japanese Butterflies 1908 trailer in HD below.
Las mariposas japonesas Trailer
France 27 April 1908
United States 15 May 1908
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Silent Film: Japanese Butterflies (1908/Segundo de Chomón) Les papillons japonais (original title) Two Japanese artists having drawn a silk worm on a screen ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
04 September 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
16 October 1908
The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.
24 January 1908
When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands, which he cuts off while they snooze -- to do their work.
11 August 1908
Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States.
07 July 1908
Mack Sennett appears in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
01 December 1908
Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.
20 October 1908
John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and is easy prey of a contemptible villain, in the person of Tom Roland, the ubiquitous "other man".
29 December 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
13 November 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
23 May 1908
A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.
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