1905 Movies

Early Balkan footage.

A millionaire girl publishes a personal ad wishing to marry a young, gallant man, using the Park's Swiss Cowshop as the meeting point.

Lost trick film

Some gossiping women exaggerate the priest’s gift to a little girl.

A romance between a railroad engineer and the switchman's daughter is nearly ruined by train wreckers who knock out the girl and leave her on the trac...

Short film dramatizing the riots in St. Petersburg in three scenes: Fanaticism and superstition, Demonstrators leaving, and Legal crime.

A young woman is abducted and forced to beg from passers-by.

Images from Children's Day 1905.

If ever a film was in need of some narration this was it. Screened in four parts, lasting a total of approximately twelve minutes, it shows a bunch of...

The Manaki brothers document the elegant wedding of a presumably popular couple.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

An avid reader aimlessly stumbles through town, bystanders, and harm's way.

Amusing characters board an unsteady trolley at each stop, and then abandon the streetcar in order to chase a man who brought on board a basket full o...

A ballerina dreams of dancing under the sea.

Film shot with the help of the New York City (Metropolitan) Police.

Early Balkan footage.

'From Siberia to Moscow' (1876) was August Bournonville’s last long ballet. It was inspired by an 1874 trip to Russia, where Bournonville met Marius P...

The story of Charles Peace, one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Peace was an expert in cat burglary. The film reconstructs Peace's real-life le...

This film was photographed in the winter, much of it during an actual snowstorm, and snow can be seen on the ground in all scenes. The subject is a gr...

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 pol...