Most Viewed Year 1905

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

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...

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.

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially...

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

A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with...

What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?

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...

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

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

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

Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.

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

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

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

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

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...