1905 Movies

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

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

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 constru...

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs o...

Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to dinn...

A soldier attempts to rest at an inn, but his bed plays tricks on him, never giving the poor man a chance to sleep. The inn continues to haunt him unt...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A portrait of the Dam family.

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 mercantil...

A woman sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape.

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by...

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dan...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

Early Balkan footage.

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

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 f...