Most Viewed Year 1905

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

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

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...

Martyrs of the Inquisition

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

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...

Early Balkan footage.

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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 mass gathering of people.

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

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

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 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.

Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand...

Early Balkan footage.

A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.