Ferdinand Zecca's remake of his own film "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901) with the same premise, showing a diver with reverse motion editing for a curious effect
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Fantastic Diver Trailer
Spain 24 October 1905
France 11 August 1905
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1905:
01 January 1905
Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.
01 January 1905
Also showing Cortina mountain and general surroundings.
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.
26 September 1905
A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim.
07 October 1905
A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.
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.
01 September 1905
An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.
27 December 1905
An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1905 Pathé Frères.
