1905 Movies

Balkan actuality.

Hazel, the miller's daughter, is courted by a country boy and a sophisticated city boy. Her father favors the country boy, but she elopes with the cit...

A partially nude woman fixes and brushes her hair.

Early Balkan footage.

A man is chased by ten women!

The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.

Nouveau Cirque performs the cake-walk.

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...

At an island penal institution, new prisoners are brought in one-by-one, and introduced to the harsh realities of prison life. They are put in fetters...

1905 short film showing people walking down a Ljutomer street after mass.

Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand...

Several men take watermelons from a melon patch, and are pursued.

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

Early Balkan footage.

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the gua...

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.

A group of dancing people.

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

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...