Most Viewed Year 1905

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

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 dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

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...

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...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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...

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

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to...

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

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

A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.

A partially nude woman fixes and brushes her hair.

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...