Movies 1905 Page 6

A peasant goes to Paris to sell a couple of rabbits and everything he finds in the city surprises and amazes him, which causes fun to the Parisians....

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

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

The film shows hundreds of tightly packed people crowding into the front door of the Rothschild Co. 5 and 10 cent store. They are so closely packed...

The Manaki brothers document the elegant wedding of a presumably popular couple.

The story of Charles Peace, one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Peace was an expert in cat burglary. The film reconstructs Peace's real-life...

Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is being challenged by forces led by Macduff. Young Siward comes to confront the...

Hazel, the miller's daughter, is courted by a country boy and a sophisticated city boy. Her father favors the country boy, but she elopes with the...

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.

Experiment in animation: birds flying.

Boss insists on pawing secretary. She teaches him a lesson.

A variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely...

Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.

Early Balkan footage.

Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to...

A couple of young boys clamber over a fence and break into the hen coop. They steal some eggs and a fat chicken. The adults are after them, but the...

A poor woodcutter abandons his 7 children in the woods.

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.

I'm not sure why the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but President Theodore...

Various shots of a car race and the spectators.

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

Photographed from one camera position, a robust woman demonstrates physical culture exercises.

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

A team of surgeons open a patient's stomach and discover a surprising variety of objects.

Colourful fountains in Versailles.

Boats on the Nile.

A group of thieves are building a fake coffin as part of a plan to steal a jewel case filled with extravagant and expensive gems. With one of the...

A panoramic shot of New York City's Pennsylvania Station during its construction, filmed 19 July 1905, includes narrow gauge railway action.

Lowell, Massachusetts: a stationary camera records the St. Patrick's Day parade on a muddy street.

Several shots of a manned kite-glider at Brighton Beach.

Colourful fireworks

A 1905 film by the Charles Urban Trading Company.

Kaisers Karusell in Kronberg

1905 actuality film, director unknown, preserved by the Library of Congress. Also appears in Hollis Frampton's film, Public Domain. Cf. Woman with...

Footage of aviation tests from 1905.

A group of Japanese soliders.

On Aug. 5, 1905, the Japanese and Russian delegations to the Portsmouth Peace Conference left New York City to board ships which would take them...