1905 Movies

An early example of hand-colored sparkling light displays, by a filmmaker whose name has been lost to time.

A film from 1905 that playfully explores a reversal of physical gender characteristics and can be understood as part of the emerging discourse on horm...

A woman offers a reward for her missing dog and a huge number of claimants shows up.

Experiment in animation: birds flying.

A little man appears out of the smoke.

Documentary images from a market in Falkenberg.

A Mitchell & Kenyon actuality depicting the northern folk of Halifax, dressed in their Sunday best to witness and participate in a Catholic procession...

A husband tries to boss his servants and ends up in the dough.

Both father and son want to meet their respective romantic appointments, without the other one knowing. The film is currently considered lost.

1905 actuality film, director unknown, preserved by the Library of Congress. Also appears in Hollis Frampton's film, Public Domain.

1905 actuality film, director unknown, preserved by the Library of Congress. Also appears in Hollis Frampton's film, Public Domain. Cf. Woman with unc...

The daring skeleton-sledding racers along the now-legendary Cresta Run at St. Moritz took their lives into their own hands as they attempted to race t...

To commemorate the Anniversary of the Unspunnen Fete of 1815, held at Unspunnen, near Interlaken. Order of the Procession : 1-Twenty-two girls in cost...

The wife is writing letters in the kitchen accompanied by the maid. The wife leaves and the husband enters, trying to embrace the maid. The ink on the...

A man in black tie and tails enters a high-society parlor where a settee sits beneath an open window. He goes to the window and gestures to someone. F...

Short film about the surrender at Port Arthur, the signing of the surrender, and the match out of the Russian prisoners and wounded.

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

A full-length view, photographed from the audience, of a woman dressed in tights doing calisthenics. She demonstrates arm and waist movements.

Comedy about moving furniture.

A workman places his paint can in an unfortunate spot.