A Bank Robbery (1908)initiated by carol on September 06, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250244/) This action-packed feature is interesting for several reasons. In its time, it probably got the most attention for featuring the real-life robber Al Jennings, as he re-created a bank robbery in his ne ....
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Moscou sous la neige (1908)initiated by carol on September 06, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256939/) This very interesting and sometimes beautiful collection of Moscow winter scenes has excellent photography, with a very well-chosen assortment of settings, and it has also been well-preserved over the ....
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A Christmas Carol (1908)initiated by TrueMagic on September 06, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233449/) We can only wonder how the world of literature (and indirectly of movies) might have changed had not Charles Dickens wandered past a cemetery one day and noticed an weatherbeaten tombstone on which wa ....
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Drama v tabore podmoskovnykh tsygan (1908)initiated by Raghu on September 07, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201578/) This early Russian short feature is lively, unpredictable, and worth seeing. The story centers on a camp of gypsies, and in filming it they actually used a band of gypsies, rather than professional a ....
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initiated by Raghu on September 07, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223412/) This piece marks a return to form for Melies' story films after several comparatively weak ones in 1907 -- he seems to have been concentrating on the business end of things and leaving matters in the ....
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initiated by sumit4all on September 07, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241236/)
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The Thieving Hand (1908)initiated by nita on September 07, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288252/) This charming and very amusing short film from 1908 surpasses many short films of today in its imagination and execution. The special effects, although nowhere near as slick as today add charm to a s ....
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initiated by Muhammad on September 07, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267049/) Here we have a short piece in which Max Linder's character struggles to cope in the house after his wife flounces off back to mother. These days we've seen the situations many times but they still hav ....
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The Tempest (1908)initiated by meghaS on September 07, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298570/)
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The Devil (1908)initiated by meghaS on September 15, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000672/) The 33 year old D.W. Griffith demonstrates in this film that the voice of the camera is superior to the majority of the novels written up until this point (Defoe, Scott, Charlotte Bronte withstanding) ....
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initiated by anil on September 15, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000516/) Just saw on YouTube what must have been one of the earliest uses of stop motion animation in history. In summation, as baggage is checked in that baggage moves by itself to a room where it opens itsel ....
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initiated by TrueMagic on September 15, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000702/) Just saw on YouTube what must have been one of the earliest uses of stop motion animation in history. In summation, as baggage is checked in that baggage moves by itself to a room where it opens itsel ....
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The Taming of the Shrew (1908)initiated by TrueMagic on September 15, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000770/) This is worth seeing as a solid early effort to film Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew", and it is also of interest as an early pairing of director D.W. Griffith and cinematographer Billy Bitzer. Alt ....
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Fantasmagorie (1908)initiated by Goldie on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000682/) It may not seem like much to today's audience, who has been exposed to the latest technilogical advances in animation, but Emile Cohl's Fantasmagorie is one history's revolutionary groundbreakers in t ....
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The Christmas Burglars (1908)initiated by carol on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000660/) It was in these 1908 films that Griffith discovered the talent of Mack Sennett as a humorous actor and the potential to be the king of comedy. By using Sennett he was displaying range between the hist ....
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