Most Viewed Year 1905 - 14

Several shots of a manned kite-glider at Brighton Beach.

Renowned market leader Pathé Frères was specialized in filming elaborate Biblical stories. Here the life of Moses is told in six scenes.

A keen Scots golfer wrecks his host's house.

An anarchist blows up the general who sent his wife to Siberia.

A workman places his paint can in an unfortunate spot.

A Christmas goose is brought back to life by an electric shock machine. This film is considered lost.

In Yunnan, at the end of the Qing dynasty, Auguste François, consul, photographer and amateur ethnographer documents, thanks to a camera...

Photographed from one camera position, a robust woman demonstrates physical culture exercises.

A variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely...

The first camera position shows girls in uniform marching in double file down a curved flight of stairs in an amusement zone. The remainder of the...

A man in black tie and tails enters a high-society parlor where a settee sits beneath an open window. He goes to the window and gestures to someone....

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

A glimpse behind the stage.

In this remake of Ferdinand Zecca's "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901), Segundo de Chomón shows a diver with reverse motion...

1905 actuality film, director unknown, preserved by the Library of Congress. Also appears in Hollis Frampton's film, Public Domain.

1905 actuality film, director unknown, preserved by the Library of Congress. Also appears in Hollis Frampton's film, Public Domain. Cf. Woman with...

French short film Pathe Frères Catalog 1237

Four on-screen spectators serve as the viewer’s proxy at a running of the annual French championship steeplechase held at Paris’s Auteuil...

Shot in Yunnan, China, simply shows 2 men smoking.

Long shots of men and women coasting (and occasionally tumbling) down the slopes in small groups, followed by a number of skiers launching themselves...