01 January 1908 Factual, Music 3 mins
Tonbild (early form of sync sound film). The music is the sextet from Act Two of Lucia di Lammermoor, sung in German.
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Germany 01 January 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
25 August 1908
A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made.
19 April 1908
Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.
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.
11 November 1908
Two hunters set out on safari with their African guide. They observe zebras, an ostrich, and a hippopotamus, capture a monkey, and camp for the night.
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 August 1908
King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.
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.
15 September 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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.
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.
19 June 1908
A poorly compensated bank clerk is, we may say, to that trying position of "Tantalus" in sight of tons of money but not a dollar of his own.
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