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:
26 September 1905
A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim.
05 June 1905
The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track.
01 January 1905
Alice Guy directed a now lost phonoscene (film that relied on a chronophone sound recording that the actors in the film lip-synced with) version of Faust in 22 scenes(or short films) totaling 1245 meter of film.
09 May 1905
A young man leers through a peephole in the wall separating two dressing rooms, but he is caught, and is humiliated by his victims, two pretty ladies.
01 January 1905
Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.
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.
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.
05 December 1905
An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.
14 October 1905
The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.
01 January 1905
Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy.
Have you watched Series 1 (insect flights) yet? What did you think about it?