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.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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

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

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...

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...

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

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.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught...

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

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...

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

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films....

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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

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

Another magic short of Méliès.

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...