1905 Movies

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

The Manaki brothers document the hanged bodies in a town square, post-Ilinden Uprising; The disheartened mill about. The men were likely killed by Mus...

Early Balkan footage.

The parade of Serbian army in Macedonian town.

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 v...

Polin performs a song.

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 t...

Early "photoscene" (chronograph #7 in Gaumont catalogue) showing a performance of the cake walk. Also known as "Cake-walk nègre" by many (sadly).

Another short of Georges.

A mass gathering of people.

A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.

Early Balkan footage.

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

A group of dancing people.

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...

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.

A little man appears out of the smoke.

A drunk staggers into his apartment and falls asleep. He dreams he climbs to the top of a building and flies to the moon, then falls back to earth. Wh...

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...