1905 Movies

A woman confessing her sins to a priest who gets more and more excited.

Diving in the Swimming Pool at Palm Beach, Florida.

Boss insists on pawing secretary. She teaches him a lesson.

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...

This film was photographed in the winter, much of it during an actual snowstorm, and snow can be seen on the ground in all scenes. The subject is a gr...

Showing the peasants in their quaint costumes, which are only donned on Sundays and Festivals.

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Lost trick film from Georges Méliès.

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 o...

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 vict...

A policeman has breakfast with his wife and children, and then prepares for the day's work. While on his beat, he finds and helps a lost child. Later,...

Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is being challenged by forces led by Macduff. Young Siward comes to confront the...

A bird buzzes around a mustached man interrupting his meal.

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

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 g...

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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