Most Viewed Year 1905 - 1

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...

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

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...

Amusing characters board an unsteady trolley at each stop, and then abandon the streetcar in order to chase a man who brought on board a basket full...

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.

Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.

A romance between a railroad engineer and the switchman's daughter is nearly ruined by train wreckers who knock out the girl and leave her on the...

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

The story of Charles Peace, one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Peace was an expert in cat burglary. The film reconstructs Peace's real-life...

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

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the...

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

Early Balkan footage.

The formal name of the peep show machine was the Mutoscope -- at least when it was manufactured by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, which...