1905 Movies

Early Balkan footage.

Images of boats on the river.

A young girl and boy both in 18th century clothes and wigs bow to each other before a table covered with yellow cut flowers. The boy awards a flower to the girl and she plays he-loves-me, he-loves-me-not.

The 16 July 1905 departure of polar explorer Robert Peary on one of his expeditions to the North Pole aboard the specially designed ship Roosevelt.

The cameraman photographed over the right shoulder of a young woman reclining on a couch while rebuffing the advances of a young man intent on kissing her. Throughout the film, the young woman eludes his advances. Finally, at the end of the picture, she seems...

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 fireman.

The film shows an unusual type of railroad car designed to go over or under an oncoming car instead of around it, as conventional railroad cars must do. Each car not only runs on tracks but also has a set of tracks over its top, permitting an oncoming car to g...

The first camera position shows girls in uniform marching in double file down a curved flight of stairs in an amusement zone. The remainder of the film is from several camera positions and shows the band wearing two different types of uniforms.

Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.

Police try to catch acrobatic thieves who vanish at will.

People waving goodbye to ship. High angle of intersection. People hurried off ferry. Pov on elevated. Views from? People on street & pov from trollies. Skating in central park & windy day on street with snowdrifts. Street scenes. Ice. Winter pedestrian...

The earlist Chinese film with confirmed written record, a short film made by the government army, documenting the autumn army manoeuvres in October 1905.

1905 short film showing people walking down a Ljutomer street after mass.

It's the view out of a railroad car near the engine as it navigates among a choice of tracks and takes off through the countryside.

A magician conjures up a fine meal for a poor man, and clothes him magnificently.... but what does he get out of it?

A man on his way to visit his lady love trips an old man by accident. He makes no apologies and rushes on his way. Little does he know that the old man is a devil who will torment him as he tries his hand at courting.

I'm not sure why the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but President Theodore Roosevelt had been flexing the United States' power in the world. He had offered to mediate an end to the the war. Rus...

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 is difficult to tell one from another. The view is from across the street, looking down from the 2nd floor.

For the last time the landlord calls upon the artist lodger for his rent and threatens to sell him up unless paid that day. No sooner has he gone than the artist begins to remove all his furniture by sliding it down a plank which he has placed across the windo...

Travels in Burma.