1905 Movies

A man in black tie and tails enters a high-society parlor where a settee sits beneath an open window. He goes to the window and gestures to someone. From outside, a man in a burglar's outfit (watch cap, wide striped shirt, and dark jacket) appears and gets his...

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 dangerous, icy course – the first of its kind – travelling at speeds of 40-50 miles per hour while lying fa...

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...

A gang of child thieves take one away and hand him over to other gypsies who dress him in rags and cruelly mistreat him. The boy wants to escape and the police find them. The father shoots one of the gypsies and the others are happily arrested.

While the old gentleman is dying his mustache and eyebrows, putting in his monocle, and donning his toupee, the little brat fits a two-gallon jar of glue and ladles some into he gentleman's top hat, then sneaks out to witness his embarrassment.

Hangman brings criminal to gallows, places hood on head, priest prays.

Boats on the Nile.

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.

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

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

Documentary images from a market in Falkenberg.

Series of 14 chronophotographic short films held by the Cinémathèque française. Includes vol de la grosse mouche bleue (flight of the big blue fly),oft-misattributed to Marey as "Mosquinha".

Long shots of men and women coasting (and occasionally tumbling) down the slopes in small groups, followed by a number of skiers launching themselves off a small ski-jump as onlookers stand nearby.

This short film from the Corrick Collection by the Corrick Family Entertainers features shots taken from the front of a train travelling through the snowy Swiss Alps.

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

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 thieves inside, the fake coffin is loaded into the railroad car that is also carrying the jewel case. After the tr...

The wife is writing letters in the kitchen accompanied by the maid. The wife leaves and the husband enters, trying to embrace the maid. The ink on the table is knocked over and covers the husband's hands. Unaware of this, the husband continues his ministration...

Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.

A three-card-trick player wins at strip-poker.

A visit to the zoo.