1905 Movies

Panorama taken on the railway from Colombo to Kandy - Native barber - Natives washing themselves and bathing their animals in a pond - Native women ki...

A magician produces a chicken from an immense egg, and then six chicks from eggs laid by that chicken. The chicken is wrapped in paper and put into a...

At the racetrack.

A film from 1905 that playfully explores a reversal of physical gender characteristics and can be understood as part of the emerging discourse on horm...

A glimpse behind the stage. An old man pursues a young woman but a she prefers the advances of a younger man so the older one gives his flowers to a f...

Short film about the surrender at Port Arthur, the signing of the surrender, and the match out of the Russian prisoners and wounded.

Shot in Yunnan, China, simply shows 2 men smoking.

At an island penal institution, new prisoners are brought in one-by-one, and introduced to the harsh realities of prison life. They are put in fetters...

A 1905 film by the Charles Urban Trading Company.

Four people, two women and two men, can be seen reclining in the bunks of an artist's conception of a Chinese opium den.

A city family goes to the shore for a vacation, but everything goes wrong.

An early example of hand-colored sparkling light displays, by a filmmaker whose name has been lost to time.

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.

A group of Japanese soliders.

Pathé film number 1244, a remake from Ferdinand Zecca's film of the same name (1901). This version was known as "What Is Seen Through a Keyhole" (US)...

Prince Carl alongside his wife Princess Maud leaves Denmark to become King Haakon of Norway on 23 November 1905.

An anarchist blows up the general who sent his wife to Siberia.

Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand...

Police try to catch acrobatic thieves who vanish at will.

A boss has a dream in which he is tortured and tries to escape. Some women gently wake him up. France, 1905 Prod.: Pathé Frères (scène à trucs, n....