Most Viewed Year 1905

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.

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...

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.

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...

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

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

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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 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 portrait of the Dam family.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they...

The parade of Serbian army in Macedonian town.

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...

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.

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