Movies 1905

'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to gaze...

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his...

A woman confessing her sins to a priest who gets more and more excited.

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt...

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

A bullfighter dances with a woman.

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.

Early Balkan footage.

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

Early Balkan footage.

A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.

A tramp who unwittingly starts a fire is chased by a mob of peasants.

Balkan actuality.

Ferdinand Zecca's remake of his own film "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901) with the same premise, showing a diver with reverse...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A schoolclass in seen outside in Macedonia.

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to...

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

A portrait of the Dam family.

Monsieur Beaucaire, a French nobleman & relative of the King, engages in a sword fight with the jealous Duke of Winterset over a card game, leading...

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

In order to photograph this film, the cameraman placed his equipment on a broad sidewalk in the business district of a large city, probably New York....

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

In this parody of 1903's "Great Train Robbery", also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by...

A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially...

A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is...

A husband tries to boss his servants and ends up in the dough.

Some gossiping women exaggerate the priest’s gift to a little girl.

Stolen car and a police chase

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught...

If ever a film was in need of some narration this was it. Screened in four parts, lasting a total of approximately twelve minutes, it shows a bunch...

The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.

Rendez-vous of Apaches. Bonneteur and pickpocket. Theft at the scramble. Reticle shooter. Shoplifting. Pepper stripper. The coup of Father...

This short film, done by The American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, shows the historical legend of the three men - two drums and a fife player -...

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

A young woman is abducted and forced to beg from passers-by.