16 November 1908 Factual 6 mins
Here's a travelogue that takes its audience to Palermo and shows them the big sights, and the hidden ones. It ends with a slow but impressive panorama shot of the skyline.
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Italy 16 November 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
07 March 1908
Dr Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr Hyde.
01 January 1908
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.
25 July 1908
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
08 March 1908
Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
27 November 1908
Our picture relates to a crime committed by a Gorilla who escapes from his cage and through circumstantial evidence a young man, whom we will call in our story Jim, is accused and is just about to be convicted.
03 September 1908
In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder).
23 May 1908
A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.
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.
15 October 1908
Stenka Razin is the leader of a group of outlaws who live a life of revelry and carousing along the Volga River and in the nearby forests.
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.
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