1905 Movies

Footage of aviation tests from 1905.

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

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

A parade of Mystic Shriners in ritual costumes and traditional hats, carrying a banner reading "Mecca"; some walk, some are mounted on horses, a few r...

People waving goodbye to ship. High angle of intersection. People hurried off ferry. Pov on elevated. Views from? People on street & pov from trol...

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

The second Empire State Express, behind a 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive, demonstrates how to take water on the fly by scooping it out of a pan set between...

A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense.

A party of tourists ascending to the peak of the Rigi find a fresh fall of snow covering the summit. They soon divided into battalions, and bombard ea...

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...

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, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.

The apprentice at a pastry shop is more interested in playing tricks on people than sweeping the pavement in front of the shop; more interested in eat...

To commemorate the Anniversary of the Unspunnen Fete of 1815, held at Unspunnen, near Interlaken. Order of the Procession : 1-Twenty-two girls in cost...

A young girl is given her breakfast of milk and a biscuit by an elderly woman. When her beribboned cat comes up, she shares the meal with her. Later,...

This short film, done by The American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, shows the historical legend of the three men - two drums and a fife player - forev...

British documentary short released in 1905.

A husband tries to boss his servants and ends up in the dough.

A city family goes to the shore for a vacation, but everything goes wrong.

A peasant goes to Paris to sell a couple of rabbits and everything he finds in the city surprises and amazes him, which causes fun to the Parisians. B...