1905 Movies

A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.

Alice Guy directed a now lost phonoscene (film that relied on a chronophone sound recording that the actors in the film lip-synced with) version of Fa...

From the Emmy award winners of Battlefield and Weapons of war, this film tells the story of America's response from the attack on Pearl Harbor. An ind...

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

A lost girl, whipped by a ruffian and forced to beg, is saved by a gentleman who whips the ruffian. Director: Lewin Fitzhamon Stars: Lewin Fitzhamon...

Panorama taken on the railway from Colombo to Kandy - Native barber - Natives washing themselves and bathing their animals in a pond - Native women ki...

A woman becomes slowly visible in front of a black space. She points a wand and spells the word “Bonsoir” in coloured letters formed from flowers.

A Short Comedy

A ballerina dreams of dancing under the sea.

Pathé film number 1244, a remake from Ferdinand Zecca's film of the same name (1901). This version was known as "What Is Seen Through a Keyhole" (US)...

A young woman is a cook in a noble house, but she reads her favorite drama "Joan of Arc" as often as she can while she works. But that's not all, she...

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

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

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

The Manakia brothers, from Avdella Grevenon, shot the first film in the Balkans, the famous "Weavers", in 1905. The protagonist of their first and sho...

French short film Pathe Frères Catalog 1237

Erotic dance performed by an unknown female dancer.

'From Siberia to Moscow' (1876) was August Bournonville’s last long ballet. It was inspired by an 1874 trip to Russia, where Bournonville met Marius P...