Most Viewed Year 1905 - 4

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.

Early Balkan footage.

Cultural documentary featuring a Chinese folk dance performance held in the courtyard of Auguste François's house in Yunnanfu, present-day...

A gentleman of France

A 1905 short film from the Pathé Catalogue.

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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...

Some gossiping women blow the priest’s gift to a little girl out of proportion.

Balkan actuality.

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....

The parade of Serbian army in Macedonian town.

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand...

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to...

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

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

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