The best movies 1905 Pagina 17

A magician conjures up a fine meal for a poor man, and clothes him magnificently.... but what does he get out of it?

A policeman woos a cook for the free meals. When her employer discovers them, the policeman tries to escape, but the employer throws a jug of milk on...

Colourful fireworks

I'm not sure why the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but President Theodore...

A gang of child thieves take one away and hand him over to other gypsies who dress him in rags and cruelly mistreat him. The boy wants to escape and...

The son of an astronomer hides the family cat in his father's telescope.

While the old gentleman is dying his mustache and eyebrows, putting in his monocle, and donning his toupee, the little brat fits a two-gallon jar of...

The 16 July 1905 departure of polar explorer Robert Peary on one of his expeditions to the North Pole aboard the specially designed ship Roosevelt.

A short documentary of mild curiosity value showing a group of Blackburn school children passing before the camera.

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

A gentleman sits down and sees the prospective brides. They are all beautiful of face and form, and each carries a scroll on which her dowry is...

In Paris, freed by criminal hands, several barrels roll down an endless slope, dragging everything and everyone in their path.

The wife is writing letters in the kitchen accompanied by the maid. The wife leaves and the husband enters, trying to embrace the maid. The ink on...

Cavalcade in Luxembourg, 1905.

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

Various shots of a car race and the spectators.

A train ride of New York.

This film was part of a lecture series conducted by Burton Holmes showing a mix of lantern slides and motion pictures of Yosemite entitled,...

A henpecked husband has had enough. After tending the garden and being hectored over his unsatisfactory housework, he kicks his mother-in-law, leaves...

A young girl and boy both in 18th century clothes and wigs bow to each other before a table covered with yellow cut flowers. The boy awards a flower...

A man stops to have his shoes polished by a young boy. A woman, passing by, has her garter slip to the ground. She replaces it, raising her skirt to...

The story of a group of counterfeiters, caught, and then escaping from prison.