The best movies 1905

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

A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.

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.

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

A film adaptation of the play by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey.

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

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

'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...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

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...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

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...

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...

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

Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is being challenged by forces led by Macduff. Young Siward comes to confront the...

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

A parade of Mystic Shriners in ritual costumes and traditional hats, carrying a banner reading "Mecca"; some walk, some are mounted on horses, a few...

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

A woman performs the tango.