1905 Movies

A workman places his paint can in an unfortunate spot.

Prince Carl alongside his wife Princess Maud leaves Denmark to become King Haakon of Norway on 23 November 1905.

In this remake of Ferdinand Zecca's "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901),Segundo de Chomón shows a diver with reverse motion editing...

This film was photographed in the winter, much of it during an actual snowstorm, and snow can be seen on the ground in all scenes. The subject is a gr...

Several shots of a manned kite-glider at Brighton Beach.

The formal name of the peep show machine was the Mutoscope -- at least when it was manufactured by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, whic...

Photographed from one camera position, a robust woman demonstrates physical culture exercises.

The son of an astronomer hides the family cat in his father's telescope.

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...

The 16 July 1905 departure of polar explorer Robert Peary on one of his expeditions to the North Pole aboard the specially designed ship Roosevelt.

A Mitchell & Kenyon actuality depicting the northern folk of Halifax, dressed in their Sunday best to witness and participate in a Catholic procession...

Stolen car and a police chase

The film shows an unusual type of railroad car designed to go over or under an oncoming car instead of around it, as conventional railroad cars must d...

Lowell, Massachusetts: a stationary camera records the St. Patrick's Day parade on a muddy street.

Trick film about second-story men and bobbies.

At the racetrack.

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...

The story of a group of counterfeiters, caught, and then escaping from prison.

A drunk furniture-repairer tries to wrangle sixteen chairs.

Students collecting money for the children.