1905 Movies

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.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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 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...

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

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...

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...

Early Balkan footage.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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

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...

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...

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

Early Balkan footage.

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

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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 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 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...

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

A portrait of the Dam family.

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

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.

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 workman flees from a lunatic who wishes to return a putty knife.

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....

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 film adaptation of the play by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey.

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...

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...

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 romance between a railroad engineer and the switchman's daughter is nearly ruined by train wreckers who knock out the girl and leave her on the...

Several chairs rest against a blank wall; three men, then a fourth and soon seven in all, divide into various pairs and wrestle for the camera.