The best movies 1905

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Including several views of main streets with traffic, market scenes, steam tramways in Marientheresiaustrasse.

'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to...

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

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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...

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....

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

A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.

Monsieur Beaucaire, a French nobleman & relative of the King, engages in a sword fight with the jealous Duke of Winterset over a card game, leading...

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

One at a time, we meet eight members of the Dam family.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

A party of tourists ascending to the peak of the Rigi find a fresh fall of snow covering the summit. They soon divided into battalions, and bombard...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A unique view of one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. The film is tinted to portray the falls amid highly picturesque setting in the...