Movies 1905 Page 4

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.

A poacher eludes a gendarme with the help of some trick photography.

An early short from Gaumont by Alice Guy-Blanché. A woman becomes slowly visible in front of a black space. She points a wand and spells the word...

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films. There...

Chasing after a bicycle thief.

Renowned market leader Pathé Frères was specialized in filming elaborate Biblical stories. Here the life of Moses is told in six scenes.

A millionaire girl publishes a personal ad wishing to marry a young, gallant man, using the Park's Swiss Cowshop as the meeting point.

Early Balkan footage.

Various shots around Washington, D.C., on Roosevelt's 1905 inauguration, March 4th. View of the Capitol crowds, and the oath of office. Followed by a...

A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.

Beautiful girls emerge from a large beehive and perform graceful dances. The queen falls asleep and an enormous spider builds his web over her. The...

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

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 woman receives her lover at home but the husband arrives having to hide him in a trunk. They go on a trip and the porters do not treat the trunk...

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.

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

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

People waving goodbye to ship. High angle of intersection. People hurried off ferry. Pov on elevated. Views from? People on street & pov from...

Four people, two women and two men, can be seen reclining in the bunks of an artist's conception of a Chinese opium den.

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

An actuality which chronicles how a load of ore becomes a finished steel product at a Bessemer plant. Deep red tints and red-hot pops of...

A drunk furniture-repairer tries to wrangle sixteen chairs.

A young man leers through a peephole in the wall separating two dressing rooms, but he is caught, and is humiliated by his victims, two pretty ladies.

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

The second Empire State Express, behind a 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive, demonstrates how to take water on the fly by scooping it out of a pan set...

This film was photographed in the winter, much of it during an actual snowstorm, and snow can be seen on the ground in all scenes. The subject is a...

A series of races and exhibitions is taking place at the hippodrome track in Coney Island's Dreamland. First there is a simple race between two...

A woman sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape.

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The...

Several men take watermelons from a melon patch, and are pursued.

Hangman brings criminal to gallows, places hood on head, priest prays.

A full-length view, photographed from the audience, of a woman dressed in tights doing calisthenics. She demonstrates arm and waist movements.

An anarchist blows up the general who sent his wife to Siberia.

A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black background. Although she is filmed in a long shot,...

This film was part of a lecture series conducted by Burton Holmes showing a mix of lantern slides and motion pictures of Yosemite entitled, “The...

A policeman woos a cook for the free meals. When her employer discovers them, the policeman tries to escape, but the employer throws a jug of milk on...

A parade of Mystic Shriners in ritual costumes and traditional hats, carrying a banner reading "Mecca"; some walk, some are mounted on horses, a few...