Most Viewed Year 1905

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

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

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they...

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

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

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...

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...

Early Balkan footage.

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer...

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

A young student goes to his father and asks for money. When this isn't enough he goes to his mother who gives him more. Happy, he meets his friends...