1905 Movies

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...

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

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

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...

Balkan actuality.

Early Balkan footage.

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...

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.

Early Balkan footage.

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...

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

Early Balkan footage.

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.

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

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.

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...

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...

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 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...

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 portrait of the Dam family.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?

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....

A city family goes to the shore for a vacation, but everything goes wrong.

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,...

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

A man is chased by ten women!

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with...

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the...

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

The formal name of the peep show machine was the Mutoscope -- at least when it was manufactured by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company,...