1905 Movies

The first Chinese film ever made, a sung representation of Battle of Mount Dingjun.

A woman performs the tango.

Also showing Cortina mountain and general surroundings.

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. There are som...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A bullfighter dances with a woman.

The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.

A woman confessing her sins to a priest who gets more and more excited.

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

A devil puts a woman into a boiling cauldron in a fiery cave.

A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.

A respectable fellow has quietly taken a seat upon a bench in a park, and worn out from the excessive heat of the day, has fallen asleep. Two ramblers...

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

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 v...

This is in poor condition and the hand colouring is a little rough around the edges compared to the others, but it contains some impressive ‘appearing...

On Mar. 4, 1905, TR is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. with much celebration and fanfare. TR rides in an open landau on Fifteenth St., NW, escorted by...

Early Balkan footage.

Alice Guy directed a now lost phonoscene (film that relied on a chronophone sound recording that the actors in the film lip-synced with) version of Fa...

A basket of flowers appears and moves by itself to the middle of a decorative arch. From the basket, a woman magician appears. From a cylinder, the ma...

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 c...