Most Viewed Year 1905

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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...

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

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

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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...

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

One at a time, we meet eight members of the Dam family.

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

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth....

Being a complete pictorial account of the remarkable "Fête des Vignerons", at Vevey, Switzerland.

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

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 man kills a wealthy miser - frugal fellow, I like to think - and buries his corpse under a haystack. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his...

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

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