1905 Movies

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

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

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 dinn...

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense.

A partially nude woman fixes and brushes her hair.

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

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 silverware...

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...

Directed by Ren Jingfeng.

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.

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

The story of Charles Peace, one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Peace was an expert in cat burglary. The film reconstructs Peace's real-life le...

Early Balkan footage.

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films. There are som...

Early Balkan footage.

A couple of women are washing outside.

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 t...

In this parody of 1903's "Great Train Robbery", also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by pol...

A young student goes to his father and asks for money. When this isn't enough he goes to his mother who gives him more. Happy, he meets his friends wh...