24 January 1908 Fantasy, Comedy 5 mins
A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the moon. They fall to the earth and dance like tops turning one by one into Columbine maidens.
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Los lunáticos Trailer
France 24 January 1908
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30 October 1908
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11 August 1908
Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States.
13 November 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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.
19 December 1908
A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.
01 February 1908
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04 December 1908
The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar.
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09 June 1908
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07 April 1908
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