An excellent reproduction of the world-famed riders of Russia in their various stunts and acrobatic feats while on their thoroughbred horses.
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France 24 January 1908
United States 11 April 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
22 December 1908
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia.
02 November 1908
Whirling and frenzied, dances symbolizing life suddenly vanish to give way to macabre circles, evolving in flames and terrifying scenes reminiscent of Hans Holbein's famous Dance of Death in the Basel cemetery.
25 August 1908
An Old man is chased by some people. He hits them with his magic sack and they disappear. He is then arrested and escapes by climbing into his sack and reappearing outside the prison walls, he is soon caught again and makes amends by shaking his sack and bringing back those who disappeared.
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.
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.
25 July 1908
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
19 April 1908
Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.
23 May 1908
A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.
01 January 1908
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.
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