Cento anni fà: I film del 1908: 11: Visions sensuelles

Nuit de Noël (FR 1908). Pathé Frères: "A sailor on the eve of Christmas, leaves for a dangerous voyage. His wife accompanies him. Then, after crying and praying with a pardon, she goes back to the farm and goes through the mill to get a bag of flour. The miller woos her, which she seems to accept with good grace. They meet at Midnight Mass. Then the mass ended, they go by car to the young woman. There they leave the cart at the door and enter. But the sailor returns unexpectedly and, seeing the cart, understands his misfortune. He bursts into the house but the miller tries to flee with his cart. Joined by the furious sailor, he is knocked unconscious and then the cuckold leads the crew to the cliff and throws them into the sea."       

Presenta: Mariann Lewinsky. Grand piano: Maud Nelissen. Viewed in Bologna, at Cinema Lumière 1, 4 July 2008.

Aeroplane Gliding. GB 1908. 1 min. – Brief runs of a biplane glider.
[Auf hoher See] / [Oberland und Berna]. IT? 1908?. 5 min. – High wind in the ocean, the beauty of the surf.
Nuit de Noël / Christmas Eve Night / Christmas Eve Tragedy. FR 1908. PC: Pathé. 12 min. – Tragedy of the fisherman who sets out to sea on Christmas Eve, his wife seduced by another man, with a terrible revenge, including a shocking image of the horse falling down the bluff.
Repas du serpent. FR 1908. PC: Gaumont. 3 min. – A big snake strangles and eats in one piece a live rabbit.
Society Wedding. FR 1908. PC: Gaumont. 5 min. – Actuality footage at the entrance of the wedding banquet showing the magnificent carriages of the society people.
Eine kleine Mutter. FR 1908. PC: Lion. 9 min. – Mother on his deathbed, the children facing the destiny of being orphans.
La Fabrication du charbon de bois. FR 1908. PC: Pathé. 7 min. – Documentary on the production of wood charcoal.
Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs. GB 1908. D: George Albert Smith. 1 min.
Visite à Stockholm. FR 1908.
Dans le sous-marin. FR 1908. PC: Pathé. 8 min. – Fiction with sets and effects resembling Méliès. A tragic story of a submarine accident ending with fantasy visions of peace and webs with babies.