Most Viewed Year 1905 - 5

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

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 variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely...

Alice Guy experiment with visuals and sound by Félix Mayol.

Several men take watermelons from a melon patch, and are pursued.

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.

The main phases in the lives of a young couple, from when they meet and fall in love, until they have seven children, intimately linked to...

A fire on a boat requieres the assistance of some sailors

The son of an astronomer hides the family cat in his father's telescope.

Another magic short of Méliès.

A mischievous errand boy, sent out on a delivery, causes havoc in the streets of Hove. When he arrives back at the shop, he finds all his furious...

A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense.

A basket of flowers appears and moves by itself to the middle of a decorative arch. From the basket, a woman magician appears. From a cylinder, the...

A devil puts a woman into a boiling cauldron in a fiery cave.

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once...

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...

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

A series of races and exhibitions is taking place at the hippodrome track in Coney Island's Dreamland. First there is a simple race between two...

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.