1905 Movies

Colourful fountains in Versailles.

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

The Manaki brothers document the hanged bodies in a town square, post-Ilinden Uprising; The disheartened mill about. The men were likely killed by Mus...

Images from Children's Day 1905.

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

Footage of aviation tests from 1905.

Showing the peasants in their quaint costumes, which are only donned on Sundays and Festivals.

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

On Aug. 5, 1905, the Japanese and Russian delegations to the Portsmouth Peace Conference left New York City to board ships which would take them first...

Short film restored by Cineteca of Bologna on 2024

Man robbed of spectacles mistakes tramp for girl, etc.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Rendez-vous of Apaches. Bonneteur and pickpocket. Theft at the scramble. Reticle shooter. Shoplifting. Pepper stripper. The coup of Father Franç...

A short documentary of mild curiosity value showing a group of Blackburn school children passing before the camera.

In 1905, Félix Mesguich, a young camera operator of the Lumière Brothers, films in the Blumlisalp Glacier, Switzerland, one of the first mountaineerin...

This short film, done by The American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, shows the historical legend of the three men - two drums and a fife player - forev...

A young girl is given her breakfast of milk and a biscuit by an elderly woman. When her beribboned cat comes up, she shares the meal with her. Later,...

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

At an island penal institution, new prisoners are brought in one-by-one, and introduced to the harsh realities of prison life. They are put in fetters...

Early football footage from Mitchell & Kenyon.