Most Viewed Year 1905

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...

In this parody of 1903's "Great Train Robbery", also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by...

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

A portrait of the Dam family.

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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.

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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

The Kaiser was an unpopular guest in Denmark. Both for personal and political reasons, the Danish court did not want to have too close ties to the...

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

A man is chased by ten women!

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...

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

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...

A poor woodcutter abandons his 7 children in the woods.

A group of men with a broken down auto get an assist from a man who can’t walk.

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...