Most Viewed Year 1905 - 12

A burglar escapes from the apartment he's robbing by sliding down the clothesline, but in the end he's caught by the family dog.

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

Lost trick film

A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.

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

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...

A drunk furniture-repairer tries to wrangle sixteen chairs.

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).

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

A Danish commercial for Aktieselskabet Linotol-Kompagniet and linotol floor covering.

Mr. Dauber, a painter very favorably known, receives a visit Mr. Pierrot, a white clown enjoying a popularity as wide-spread as that of the painter...

A low-rent traveling theater troupe performs a very bad version of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. The theater manager steals the box office proceeds and the...

Traveling by tracks through the streets of Aarhus.

At the racetrack.

A ballerina dreams of dancing under the sea.

Views include the bridge of Kassir-el-Nil, the Sphinx, the Pyramids approached by train, and the Nile.

Colourful fireworks

A couple of women are washing outside.

A partially nude woman fixes and brushes her hair.

A gentleman returns to his home office to find that the porter is smoking his cigars and has the housemaid on his knee.