1905 Movies

The Carnival in Nice, France, in 1905.

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...

Short film restored by Cineteca of Bologna on 2024

Cultural documentary featuring a Chinese folk dance performance held in the courtyard of Auguste François's house in Yunnanfu, present-day Kunming, Ch...

A poor boy goes to pray inside a church at Christmas time, but after he collapses a figure from a stained glass window comes to life and enlists the b...

Short film about the surrender at Port Arthur, the signing of the surrender, and the match out of the Russian prisoners and wounded.

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...

A young student goes to his father and asks for money. When this isn't enough he goes to his mother who gives him more. Happy, he meets his friends wh...

Police try to catch acrobatic thieves who vanish at will.

A boss has a dream in which he is tortured and tries to escape. Some women gently wake him up. France, 1905 Prod.: Pathé Frères (scène à trucs, n....

The film shows hundreds of tightly packed people crowding into the front door of the Rothschild Co. 5 and 10 cent store. They are so closely packed it...

Early Balkan footage.

A keen Scots golfer wrecks his host's house.

A man is chased by ten women!

A glimpse behind the stage. An old man pursues a young woman but a she prefers the advances of a younger man so the older one gives his flowers to a f...

A lawyer passionately pleads for his criminal client.

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.

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

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they rea...