Movies 1905 Page 4

A young schoolboy sneaks into his father's study while he is out. He discovers a deck of transparent cards and holds some of them up to the lamp, one...

This is in poor condition and the hand colouring is a little rough around the edges compared to the others, but it contains some impressive...

A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is...

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...

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films. There...

Early Balkan footage.

A portrait of the Dam family.

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

This exquisitely coloured film features a series of models rotating slowly in front of the camera, allowing close-up views of their various...

The first Chinese film ever made, a sung representation of Battle of Mount Dingjun.

An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.

Experiment in animation: birds flying.

The Manaki brothers document the elegant wedding of a presumably popular couple.

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...

An avid reader aimlessly stumbles through town, bystanders, and harm's way.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

Also showing Cortina mountain and general surroundings.

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.

A devil puts a woman into a boiling cauldron in a fiery cave.

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...

In this parody of 1903's "Great Train Robbery", also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by...

A woman who hides her money in her stocking, only to be robbed of it.

A keen Scots golfer wrecks his host's house.

A Danish commercial for Aktieselskabet Linotol-Kompagniet and linotol floor covering.

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...

A framed bank clerk breaks jail and is sheltered by a vicar until the culprit is caught in Soho.

A couple who have known each other all of their lives are shown together at different stages of life. First, as children, they play together...

Diving in the Swimming Pool at Palm Beach, Florida.

Hazel, the miller's daughter, is courted by a country boy and a sophisticated city boy. Her father favors the country boy, but she elopes with the...

The Young Ladies From Miss Knapp's Select School Have An Outing At Coney Island, N.Y.

Film shot with the help of the New York City (Metropolitan) Police.

A burglar escapes from the apartment he's robbing by sliding down the clothesline, but in the end he's caught by the family dog.

Several chairs rest against a blank wall; three men, then a fourth and soon seven in all, divide into various pairs and wrestle for the camera.

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

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

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

A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black background. Although she is filmed in a long shot,...

A group of thieves are building a fake coffin as part of a plan to steal a jewel case filled with extravagant and expensive gems. With one of the...

Nothing to do with potties... Baby gets a good wash. In this charming Hepworth actuality film, a crisply uniformed, no-nonsense nurse bounces a baby...