1905 in film

The year 1905 in film involved some significant events.

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Events

The Manaki brothers make the first motion picture in the Balkans, The Weavers.
Pathé Frères colors black-and-white films by machine.
Filmmaking takes an unexpected historical role by recording activities along Market Street, in the year preceding the destruction from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Aleksandr Khanzhonkov begins filming his first documentaries.
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach, the oldest surviving Dutch fictional film is released by Alberts Frères. Later to be included in the canon of Dutch cinema as released by the Netherlands Film Festival.
June 19 – John P. Harris and his brother Harry in Pittsburgh open the first theater in the U.S. devoted exclusively to the exhibition of motion pictures.
December 16 – Variety, an entertainment trade newspaper that would later cover the film industry, is published for the first time in New York City.

Notable films

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2 A.M. in the Subway, directed by Billy Bitzer –

A

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom, directed by J. Stuart Blackton, based on the 1890 novel The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle – An Adventurous Automobile Trip , directed by Georges Méliès – Airy Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets, directed by Frank Marion and Wallace McCutcheon Sr. – Automobile Races at Ormond, Fla., produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company –

B

Baby's Toilet, directed by Cecil Hepworth – The Black Imp , directed by Georges Méliès – Boarding School Girls, directed by Edwin S. Porter –

C

Le Cake-walk du Nouveau Cirque , directed by Alice Guy – La charité du prestidigitateur , directed by Alice Guy – Chien jouant à la balle , directed by Alice Guy – Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly , directed by Alice Guy –

D

Dingjun Mountain, directed by Ren Qingtai –

E

The Enchanted Sedan Chair , directed by Georges Méliès – Esmeralda, directed by Alice Guy and Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, based upon the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo – Espagne, directed by Alice Guy –

F

Five O'Clock Tea, directed by Alice Guy, starring Dranem –

H

Halifax Catholic Procession, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza , directed by Segundo de Chomón –

I

In the Swimming Pool, Palm Beach, Florida, directed by G. W. Bitzer – The Infernal Cave , directed by Gaston Velle – The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship , directed by Georges Méliès –

K

The Kleptomaniac, directed by Edwin S. Porter –

L

Lilas blanc , directed by Alice Guy, starring Félix Mayol – The Little Train Robbery, directed by Edwin S. Porter – The Living Playing Cards , directed by Georges Méliès –

M

Les maçons , directed by Alice Guy – La malagueña et le torero , directed by Alice Guy – The Miller's Daughter, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. and Edwin S. Porter, based on the 1880 stage play Hazel Kirke by Steele MacKaye – The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach , directed by Willy Mullens – The Mysterious Island , directed by Georges Méliès, based upon the ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey by Homer –

N

The Night Before Christmas, directed by Edwin S. Porter, starring Harry Eytinge, based upon the 1823 poem by Clement Clarke Moore – The Nihilist, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. –

O

The Other Side of the Hedge, directed by Lewin Fitzhamon – Our New Errand Boy, directed by James Williamson –

P

The Palace of the Arabian Nights , directed by Georges Méliès – Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit , directed by Alice Guy – La polka des trottins , directed by Alice Guy, starring Félix Mayol – La Presa di Roma , directed by Filoteo Alberini –

R

Rescued by Rover, directed by Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil Hepworth – Revolution in Russia , directed by Lucien Nonguet – Rip's Dream , directed by Georges Méliès, based upon the 1819 short story Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving –

S

The Seven Ages, directed by Edwin S. Porter – Special March Past of St. Joseph's Scholars and Special Parade of St. Matthew's Pupils, Blackburn, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – La statue , directed by Alice Guy –

T

Le tango , directed by Alice Guy – A Trip to Salt Lake City, directed by G. W. Bitzer –

U

The Unfortunate Policeman, produced by Robert W. Paul –

V

Le vrai jiu-jitsu , directed by Alice Guy –

W

The Weavers, directed by the Manaki Brothers – The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog, directed by Edwin S. Porter –

Deaths

March 24 – Jules Verne, famous novelist of fantasy stories and science-fiction,
March 25 – Maurice Barrymore, Barrymore family patriarch
April 23 – Joseph Jefferson, Rip Van Winkle
October 13 – Henry Irving, English Shakespearean actor and stage manager, who at one time was Bram Stoker's employer,

Debuts

Arthur Johnson – The White Caps
Max Linder – First Night Out
Paul Panzer – ''Stolen by Gypsies''