Le diable noir

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 50
Vote Average: 6.3/10

Les cartes vivantes

A bearded magician holds up a large playing card and makes it larger. He tears up a card of a queen, burns the torn bits, and a life-size Queen of Hearts card appears; then, it becomes alive. The magician puts her back into the card. The same thing happens with the King of Clubs: the card becomes alive. The king removes his costume, and there's something very familiar about him. (IMDb)

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 36
Vote Average: 6.3/10

Баба Деспина

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.

Release On: 2nd - November - 1905

Vote Count: 15
Vote Average: 4.6/10

Saharet, boléro

Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 6
Vote Average: 4/10

New York Subway

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially constructed work car on a parallel track. At the time of filming, the subway was only seven months old, having opened on October 27, 1904. The ride begins at 14th Street (Union Square) following the route of today's east side IRT, and ends at the old Grand Central Station, built by Cornelius Vanderbuilt in 1869. The Grand Central Station in use today was not completed until 1913.

Release On: 5th - June - 1905

Vote Count: 30
Vote Average: 5.8/10

La presa di Roma 20 settembre 1870

Release On: 16th - September - 1905

Vote Count: 28
Vote Average: 5.5/10

Dranem, Five O'clock tea

Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea" for Alice Guy.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 9
Vote Average: 4.8/10

Rescued by Rover

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

Release On: 3rd - July - 1905

Vote Count: 27
Vote Average: 6.3/10

Домашна работа (предилки)

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

Release On: 31st - December - 1905

Vote Count: 12
Vote Average: 4.7/10

La polka des trottins

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Mayol, who was then filmed "lip singing". Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 8
Vote Average: 4.8/10

Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly

An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 7
Vote Average: 4.4/10

La Légende de Rip Van Winckle

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Release On: 23rd - November - 1905

Vote Count: 8
Vote Average: 5.6/10

La statue

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 7
Vote Average: 4.9/10

La poule aux oeufs d'or

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. There are some effectively surreal and creepy sequences in this imaginative short, such as the devil’s face appearing in an egg and spewing coins as well as the finale where our protagonist is sent to an egg-filled hell.

Release On: 8th - December - 1905

Vote Count: 5
Vote Average: 5.6/10

Le palais des mille et une nuits

A poor but honest young man wins the hand of a beautiful Princess after facing a series of exciting adventures involving apparitions, cartwheeling skeletons, a dragon, and plump dancing girls from the Folies Bergere.

Release On: 29th - May - 1905

Vote Count: 20
Vote Average: 5.7/10

Proslava na vodici vo ber

Early Balkan footage.

Release On: 18th - September - 1905

Vote Count: 8
Vote Average: 4.8/10

Lilas-blanc

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 9
Vote Average: 4.8/10

Les O'Mers dans 'Les Maçons'

A bunch of bricklayers cause trouble for the local cops.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 7
Vote Average: 5/10

Clown, chien et ballon

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

Release On: 1st - January - 1905

Vote Count: 8
Vote Average: 4.6/10

Selska svadba

Early Balkan footage.

Release On: 18th - September - 1905

Vote Count: 8
Vote Average: 5.1/10