A film from 1905 that playfully explores a reversal of physical gender characteristics and can be understood as part of the emerging discourse on hormones at the time. In a second step, the lecture draws a connection to contemporary films and (auto)theories that discuss hormones and transitioning.
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France 01 January 1905
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1905:
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.
23 March 1905
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.
07 October 1905
A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.
28 December 1905
The first Chinese film ever made, a sung representation of Battle of Mount Dingjun.
16 December 1905
On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.
26 September 1905
A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim.
27 December 1905
An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
31 May 1905
Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand spelling the end of his rule.
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.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1905 Pathé Frères.