Most Viewed Year 1905 - 3

Beautiful girls emerge from a large beehive and perform graceful dances. The queen falls asleep and an enormous spider builds his web over her. The...

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

Police try to catch acrobatic thieves who vanish at will.

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

Made in 1905 when short films were still being done in just one shot (for the Kinetoscope peep-show machines) and lasted about 2 minutes, this...

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 young woman receives a message, and hurriedly leaves home. But the message was a trick to lure her into a trap, where she is assaulted and killed....

A 1905 short film from the Pathé Catalogue.

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

Short film about the surrender at Port Arthur.

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...

A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.

A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.

A portrait of the Dam family.

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

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 peasant goes to Paris to sell a couple of rabbits and everything he finds in the city surprises and amazes him, which causes fun to the Parisians....

Martyrs of the Inquisition

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...