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 group of men, clothed only in swimming trunks, who demonstrate their physical prowess by doing calisthenics, playing handball, and swimming during freezing weather.
Watch the official Bathing in the Ice at the L Street Bath, Boston 1905 trailer in HD below.
Midwinter Bathing, L Street Bath, Boston Trailer
United States 23 March 1905
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1905:
26 September 1905
A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim.
01 December 1905
It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
18 December 1905
1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
10 June 1905
A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs of ancient Araby.
08 October 1905
A young girl is given her breakfast of milk and a biscuit by an elderly woman. When her beribboned cat comes up, she shares the meal with her.
11 November 1905
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.
01 January 1905
The ascent of the Wetterhorn by Frank Ormiston-Smith accompanied by the guide Christian Bergener, Rev.
01 January 1905
A unique view of one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. The film is tinted to portray the falls amid highly picturesque setting in the cold blue light of a Swiss night.
27 July 1905
'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 gaze upon the magnificent view that the sea always affords, until he slowly began to fall asleep’ So begins a report in the ‘Zandvoortsche Courant’ of July 25, 1905.
27 March 1905
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 assigned to commit an act of terror.
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