All Films

The Charmer

1906 • 4 min • France

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

Hallucination musicale

1906 • 5 min • France

Short film about a dreaming musician

Female Rivals

1906 • 6 min • Denmark

A young couple appear to be perfectly happy and in love, but one day the woman discovers that her husband is having an affair. She seeks out his mistress, and the two women agree to resolve their conflict in a duel.(stumfilm.dk)

The '?' Motorist

1906 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

Kathleen Mavourneen

1906 • 14 min • United States of America

Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack. Clearfield then tries to get his way by intimidating Kathleen and her father, but again help arrives in time. Clearfield and his accomplice then come up with their most violent plan yet.

Return of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales

1906 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited India from November 1905 to March 19, 1906.

The Mouse in the Crinoline

1906 • 2 min • France

Halifax Catholic Procession

1905 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A Mitchell & Kenyon actuality depicting the northern folk of Halifax, dressed in their Sunday best to witness and participate in a Catholic procession.

Special March Past of St. Joseph's Scholars and Special Parade of St. Matthew's Pupils, Blackburn

1905 • 2 min • United Kingdom

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

Preston North End v Aston Villa

1905 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Early football footage from Mitchell & Kenyon.

Through Aarhus Gates by Tram

1905 • 2 min • Denmark

Traveling by tracks through the streets of Aarhus.

Dial's Girl's Band, Luna Park

1905 • 1 min

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 film is from several camera positions and shows the band wearing two different types of uniforms.

England v. Ireland at Manchester

1905 • 3 min

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

Series 1 (insect flights)

1905 • 7 min • France

Series of 14 chronophotographic short films held by the Cinémathèque française. Includes vol de la grosse mouche bleue (flight of the big blue fly), oft-misattributed to Marey as "Mosquinha".

Excursion en Italie – De Naples au Vésuve

1905 • 5 min • France

A trip through Napels, ending at the Vesuvius -- the part that was also coloured in vulkanish red.

A Ramble on Skates with Inky Dink

1905 • 2 min • United States of America

Early animated short.

Building a British Railway Arrival of the Scotch Express at Rugby

1905 • 1 min • United Kingdom

It's the view out of a railroad car near the engine as it navigates among a choice of tracks and takes off through the countryside.

Japanese Dancers and Japanese Stave Duel

1905 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

La Confession

1905 • 2 min • France

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

The Three Phases Of The Moon

1905 • 2 min • France

"It is the eternal story of marriage where at first you swear to love each other forever (honeymoon). Then, as the years pass, habit and indifference (buttermoon). And finally the argument where each shows their true character (mustardmoon)." (Pathé Supplement, 1905)

Across the Subway Viaduct, New York

1905 • 2 min • United States of America

A train ride of New York.

Les Voleurs d'enfants

1905 • 6 min • France

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 police find them. The father shoots one of the gypsies and the others are happily arrested.

Les cartes lumineuses

1905 • 2 min • France

A gentleman returns to his home office to find that the porter is smoking his cigars and has the housemaid on his knee.

From Cairo to the Pyramids

1905 • 6 min • France

Views include the bridge of Kassir-el-Nil, the Sphinx, the Pyramids approached by train, and the Nile.