1905 Movies

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

A man in black tie and tails enters a high-society parlor where a settee sits beneath an open window. He goes to the window and gestures to someone. F...

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...

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The chas...

Another short of Georges.

Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is being challenged by forces led by Macduff. Young Siward comes to confront the...

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...

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films. There are som...

A man stops to have his shoes polished by a young boy. A woman, passing by, has her garter slip to the ground. She replaces it, raising her skirt to d...

A devil puts a woman into a boiling cauldron in a fiery cave.

Unable to pay his rent, the lodger tries moving out his goods along a board through a nearby window.

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

A team of surgeons open a patient's stomach and discover a surprising variety of objects.

Early Balkan footage.

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

The French short film recreates key moments from the Russian revolution of 1905 in Odessa.

A framed bank clerk breaks jail and is sheltered by a vicar until the culprit is caught in Soho.

A keen Scots golfer wrecks his host's house.

'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to gaze upo...

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.