1905 Movies

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...

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

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...

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.

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 Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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...

A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black background. Although she is filmed in a long shot, h...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A portrait of the Dam family.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

Early Balkan footage.

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...

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...

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

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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

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