1905 Movies

This short subject features a baby splashing in a tin bath, obviously enjoying making a mess. As the baby plays, a woman's torso is seen moving in the background.

An early example of hand-colored sparkling light displays, by a filmmaker whose name has been lost to time.

The main phases in the lives of a young couple, from when they meet and fall in love, until they have seven children, intimately linked to photographic art.

Footage of aviation tests from 1905.

The Manaki brothers, from Avdella Grevenon, shot the first film of the Balkans, the famous "Weavers", in 1905. The protagonist of their first and short film was their grandmother Loukia Manaki, aged 114, who spun wool and wove on the loom.

An anarchist blows up the general who sent his wife to Siberia.

A mass gathering of people.

British documentary short released in 1905.

The film was made up of photographs of interior sets combined with exteriors to establish the beginning and the end of the film. The first scene is of a New York street where a sightseeing bus is about to start off on a trip. Then the interiors, using actors,...

A couple of young boys clamber over a fence and break into the hen coop. They steal some eggs and a fat chicken. The adults are after them, but the boys start a fire by accident and lead the adults on a long chase.

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

A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

Several men take watermelons from a melon patch, and are pursued.

Beautiful girls emerge from a large beehive and perform graceful dances. The queen falls asleep and an enormous spider builds his web over her. The other bees release their queen.

A panoramic shot of New York City's Pennsylvania Station during its construction, filmed 19 July 1905, includes narrow gauge railway action.

Shot in Yunnan, China, simply shows 2 men smoking.

Early Balkan footage.

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

The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.