1905 Movies

Lost trick film from Georges Méliès.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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. Later,...

A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is ass...

Early Balkan footage.

Unverified phonoscene (chronograph #7 in Gaumont catalogue?) showing a performance of the cake walk.

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

Several chairs rest against a blank wall; three men, then a fourth and soon seven in all, divide into various pairs and wrestle for the camera.

The ascent of the Wetterhorn by Frank Ormiston-Smith accompanied by the guide Christian Bergener, Rev. H. J. Heard, Mr. E Burchell-Rodway from the Alp...

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth. Wh...

A mischievous errand boy, sent out on a delivery, causes havoc in the streets of Hove. When he arrives back at the shop, he finds all his furious vict...

The Manaki brothers document the hanged bodies in a town square, post-Ilinden Uprising; The disheartened mill about. The men were likely killed by Mus...

A woman who hides her money in her stocking, only to be robbed of it.

A poor woodcutter abandons his 7 children in the woods.

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...

The second Empire State Express, behind a 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive, demonstrates how to take water on the fly by scooping it out of a pan set between...

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this depicts...

Both father and son want to meet their respective romantic appointments, without the other one knowing. The film is currently considered lost.

The assassination of the Grand Duke Serge.

A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.