Most Viewed Year 1905

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

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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...

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

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

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

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

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...

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

Early Balkan footage.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Balkan actuality.

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.

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

1905 short film showing people walking down a Ljutomer street after mass.