1905 Movies

A man on his way to visit his lady love trips an old man by accident. He makes no apologies and rushes on his way. Little does he know that the old ma...

“The tri-car has reached such a very high state of reliability and all-round efficiency that to the man of limited means who cannot afford a car and y...

It's Christmas time, so it's obligatory to give a gift to everyone, even the guy who's paid to do a job, and often paid very well. It's a yearly routi...

A policeman woos a cook for the free meals. When her employer discovers them, the policeman tries to escape, but the employer throws a jug of milk on...

Colourful fireworks

I'm not sure why the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but President Theodore Roosevel...

A gang of child thieves take one away and hand him over to other gypsies who dress him in rags and cruelly mistreat him. The boy wants to escape and t...

While the old gentleman is dying his mustache and eyebrows, putting in his monocle, and donning his toupee, the little brat fits a two-gallon jar of g...

The 16 July 1905 departure of polar explorer Robert Peary on one of his expeditions to the North Pole aboard the specially designed ship Roosevelt.

Long shots of men and women coasting (and occasionally tumbling) down the slopes in small groups, followed by a number of skiers launching themselves...

A gentleman sits down and sees the prospective brides. They are all beautiful of face and form, and each carries a scroll on which her dowry is writte...

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...

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.

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

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...

Various shots of a car race and the spectators.

A train ride of New York.

This film was part of a lecture series conducted by Burton Holmes showing a mix of lantern slides and motion pictures of Yosemite entitled, “The Yosem...

A henpecked husband has had enough. After tending the garden and being hectored over his unsatisfactory housework, he kicks his mother-in-law, leaves...

A young girl and boy both in 18th century clothes and wigs bow to each other before a table covered with yellow cut flowers. The boy awards a flower t...