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:
30 August 1905
Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.
01 December 1905
It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
11 April 1905
The camera is high above Manhattan near the top of the Times Building, pointing down.
01 September 1905
An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.
28 October 1905
A variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely shot in 1897 but not screened in France until the 10th of December 1899.
01 January 1905
Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy.
01 January 1905
Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.
17 August 1905
This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to 1384) that were individually released in early 1906.
21 July 1905
A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate palanquin is summoned.
01 July 1905
Amusing characters board an unsteady trolley at each stop, and then abandon the streetcar in order to chase a man who brought on board a basket full of snakes that got loose.
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.
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