1905 Movies

Part of the series "Excursion en Italie" by Camille Legrand.

1905 actuality film, director unknown, preserved by the Library of Congress. Also appears in Hollis Frampton's film, Public Domain.

A workman places his paint can in an unfortunate spot.

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.

View of funeral procession and military parade at funeral for Hiram Cronk, who at the time of his death was the oldest surviving veteran of the War of 1812.

Travels in Burma.

Story of the life of Christ. Includes, among other scenes, the Nativity; Jesus driving the money changers out of the temple; Jesus walking upon the waters; Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead; Calvary; the Crucifixion; the Resurrection.

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.

A group of Japanese soliders.

A team of surgeons open a patient's stomach and discover a surprising variety of objects.

A low-rent traveling theater troupe performs a very bad version of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. The theater manager steals the box office proceeds and the performers have to walk back to New York.

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 boy to deliver presents down a chimney. This short film is part of the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family...

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

“The tri-car has reached such a very high state of reliability and all-round efficiency that to the man of limited means who cannot afford a car and yet desires something beyond a motor-bicycle, it forms an ideal compromise. As a touring vehicle it is a deligh...

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

A drunk furniture-repairer tries to wrangle sixteen chairs.

A film from 1905 that playfully explores a reversal of physical gender characteristics and can be understood as part of the emerging discourse on hormones at the time. In a second step, the lecture draws a connection to contemporary films and (auto)theories th...

Lowell, Massachusetts: a stationary camera records the St. Patrick's Day parade on a muddy street.

Four on-screen spectators serve as the viewer’s proxy at a running of the annual French championship steeplechase held at Paris’s Auteuil Hippodrome.

Comedy about moving furniture.