01 January 1905 Factual 7 mins
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".
Watch the official Series 1 (insect flights) 1905 trailer in HD below.
France 01 January 1905
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1905:
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.
01 August 1905
The second Empire State Express, behind a 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive, demonstrates how to take water on the fly by scooping it out of a pan set between the railroad tracks.
31 December 1905
1905 short film showing people walking down a Ljutomer street after mass.
26 September 1905
A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim.
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
The ascent of the Wetterhorn by Frank Ormiston-Smith accompanied by the guide Christian Bergener, Rev.
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.
19 July 1905
A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship.
01 December 1905
It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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.
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.
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