Most Viewed Year 1908 - 19

Cited as "the first silent vampire film", it is actually a pirate film and has nothing to do with vampires.

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...

Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy...

These extraordinary views of life and landscape in Beijing were filmed during the last years of China's Qing dynasty, before the 1911 Xinhai...

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

Kinemacolor

In this screaming comic is shown the amount of mischief that can be accomplished by one small boy. (Moving Picture World synopsis.)

A drunk dreams that he is carried off to Hell.

Documentary short showing traditional marriage celebration in rural France.

A pesky fly and the determination to get it.

A young woman sitting on a bench in the public park is annoyed by an old man sitting next to her and paying her persistent attention. Resenting this...

A woman attorney is seen in her apartment with her poor henpecked husband, who is more like her man servant than her better half. She is so taken up...

We can see the children of the director playing and dancing, obviously getting told what to do while it happens, and later on his wife knitting with...

Shots of Morocco, including a harbour town with a fortress.

When a bully steals their ball, a kind war veteran lends the saddened children a helping hand. And a leg or two…

A man picks up a man in drag. Short Italian comedy from 1908.

Farmer Pumpkin's pig won the blue ribbon at an exhibition and visits the photographer's to have his prize pig photographed. The farmer, the...

Mr. Nearbright is busily engaged writing; consults his watch. His wife, accompanied by her "Ma" enters, attired for a journey, carrying small...