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:
01 January 1905
Also showing Cortina mountain and general surroundings.
07 October 1905
A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.
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.
05 December 1905
An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.
11 April 1905
The camera is high above Manhattan near the top of the Times Building, pointing down.
23 May 1905
Nothing to do with potties... Baby gets a good wash. In this charming Hepworth actuality film, a crisply uniformed, no-nonsense nurse bounces a baby girl on her lap before submerging the unsuspecting infant into a tub of soapy water.
26 September 1905
A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim.
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
Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1905 Pathé Frères.