13 September 1908 Fantasy 4 mins
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.
Watch the official The Fairies and the Faun 1908 trailer in HD below.
The Faun Trailer
France 13 September 1908
United States 20 December 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
17 August 1908
An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation.
08 June 1908
Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.
01 February 1908
Documents one of the most important wrestling matches of the early 20th century between the legendary Estonian strongman Georg Hackenschmidt and the American Joe Rogers.
01 January 1908
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.
03 December 1908
There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip.
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.
06 June 1908
Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.
25 April 1908
A poor family, suffering from a lack of food, plan to sell their dog to gain some extra income. Before they act on their plan, the dog discovers some buried jewels.
27 December 1908
A gang of outlaws are planning a bank robbery. After making preparations, they commit the robbery and make their escape amidst a sharp exchange of bullets.
01 January 1908
A kabuki scene starring actors Ichikawa Udanji an Uchikawa Unosuke.
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.
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