1905 Movies

Part of the series "Excursion en Italie" by Camille Legrand.

The film was made up of photographs of interior sets combined with exteriors to establish the beginning and the end of the film. The first scene is of...

Painter pursued by policeman, laundress, milkman, etc.

In Yunnan, at the end of the Qing dynasty, Auguste François, consul, photographer and amateur ethnographer documents, thanks to a camera provided by L...

Four on-screen spectators serve as the viewer’s proxy at a running of the annual French championship steeplechase held at Paris’s Auteuil Hippodrome.

A short film from the Edison crew.

Backward facing camera stunt story of a man coming out of the water.

Hangman brings criminal to gallows, places hood on head, priest prays.

Views include the bridge of Kassir-el-Nil, the Sphinx, the Pyramids approached by train, and the Nile.

Short documentary about this Valencian tradition directed by Ángel García Cardona.

A three-card-trick player wins at strip-poker.

A team of surgeons open a patient's stomach and discover a surprising variety of objects.

The daring skeleton-sledding racers along the now-legendary Cresta Run at St. Moritz took their lives into their own hands as they attempted to race t...

Lost film in which we see the football basque team Athletic Club of Bilbao.

This short film from the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family Entertainers features shots taken from the front of a train travelling through the s...

It's the view out of a railroad car near the engine as it navigates among a choice of tracks and takes off through the countryside.

The son of an astronomer hides the family cat in his father's telescope.

Long shots of men and women coasting (and occasionally tumbling) down the slopes in small groups, followed by a number of skiers launching themselves...

Part of the series "Excursion en Italie" by Camille Legrand.

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.