Most Viewed Year 1905

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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

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...

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...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught...

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

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

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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

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

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...

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

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...