Most Viewed Year 1905 - 1

The camera is high above Manhattan near the top of the Times Building, pointing down.

Several men take watermelons from a melon patch, and are pursued.

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once...

A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with...

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...

Several chairs rest against a blank wall; three men, then a fourth and soon seven in all, divide into various pairs and wrestle for the camera.

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...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is...

A young man leers through a peephole in the wall separating two dressing rooms, but he is caught, and is humiliated by his victims, two pretty ladies.

A little man appears out of the smoke.

This film was photographed in the winter, much of it during an actual snowstorm, and snow can be seen on the ground in all scenes. The subject is a...

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...

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 sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape.

A city family goes to the shore for a vacation, but everything goes wrong.

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially...

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

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...

A scientist dreams of prehistoric monsters. He awakes in a cavern. A dinosaur chases him, even though he tries to shoot it with his revolver. The...