Most Viewed Year 1905 - 15

Diving in the Swimming Pool at Palm Beach, Florida.

A magician produces a chicken from an immense egg, and then six chicks from eggs laid by that chicken. The chicken is wrapped in paper and put into a...

A workman places his paint can in an unfortunate spot.

Students collecting money for the children.

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...

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

A bird buzzes around a mustached man interrupting his meal.

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...

A short film from the Edison crew.

A short documentary of mild curiosity value showing a group of Blackburn school children passing before the camera.

A mischievous errand boy, sent out on a delivery, causes havoc in the streets of Hove. When he arrives back at the shop, he finds all his furious...

A film from 1905 that playfully explores a reversal of physical gender characteristics and can be understood as part of the emerging discourse on...

Kaisers Karusell in Kronberg

On Aug. 5, 1905, the Japanese and Russian delegations to the Portsmouth Peace Conference left New York City to board ships which would take them...

Henry the Eighth, King of England, had six wives, and it is well known that he had several of them put to death, some by the axe, some by poison, and...

Pathé film number 1244, a remake from Ferdinand Zecca's film of the same name (1901). This version was known as "What Is Seen Through a...

French short film Pathe Frères Catalog 1237

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

The daring skeleton-sledding racers along the now-legendary Cresta Run at St. Moritz took their lives into their own hands as they attempted to race...

“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...