Most Viewed Year 1905 - 4

The cameraman photographed over the right shoulder of a young woman reclining on a couch while rebuffing the advances of a young man intent on...

Cultural documentary featuring a Chinese folk dance performance held in the courtyard of Auguste François's house in Yunnanfu, present-day...

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his...

While the old gentleman is dying his mustache and eyebrows, putting in his monocle, and donning his toupee, the little brat fits a two-gallon jar of...

In Yunnan, at the end of the Qing dynasty, Auguste François, consul, photographer and amateur ethnographer documents, thanks to a camera...

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films....

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.

A man wins a girl by pretending to take poison.

A man plays a trick to gain a woman's affection.

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

A short early sound film of soldiers following the orders of their commander.

A fire on a boat requieres the assistance of some sailors

A gentleman of France

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...

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

A couple of women are washing outside.

A fictionalized account of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

A group of dancing people.

A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.