Most Viewed Year 1905 - 3

A bullfighter dances with a woman.

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

A ballerina dreams of dancing under the sea.

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

Martyrs of the Inquisition

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

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.

The apprentice at a pastry shop is more interested in playing tricks on people than sweeping the pavement in front of the shop; more interested in...

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...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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...

A schoolclass in seen outside in Macedonia.

In order to photograph this film, the cameraman placed his equipment on a broad sidewalk in the business district of a large city, probably New York....

British documentary short released in 1905.

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his...

The Manaki brothers, from Avdella Grevenon, shot the first film of the Balkans, the famous "Weavers", in 1905. The protagonist of their first and...

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

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.