Most Viewed Year 1905

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A man stops to have his shoes polished by a young boy. A woman, passing by, has her garter slip to the ground. She replaces it, raising her skirt to...

Early Balkan footage.

A portrait of the Dam family.

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they...

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

A policeman has breakfast with his wife and children, and then prepares for the day's work. While on his beat, he finds and helps a lost child....

A burglar escapes from the apartment he's robbing by sliding down the clothesline, but in the end he's caught by the family dog.