The year 1905 in film involved some significant events.
Contents
1 Events
2 Films released in 1905
2.1 Alice Guy-Blaché
2.2 Cecil Hepworth
2.3 Georges Méliès
2.4 Edwin S. Porter
2.5 G. W. Bitzer
2.6 James Williamson
2.7 Mitchell and Kenyon
2.8 Others
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Debuts
6 References
Events[edit]
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 (footage in the modern film Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005).
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.
Films released in 1905[edit]
Alice Guy-Blaché[edit]
À la cabane bambou
Allumeur-Marche
Au poulailler!
C'est une ingénue
Cake-walk nègre
Chez le dentiste
Chien jouant à la balle
Clown, chien et ballon
Comment on dort à Paris!
Cucurbitacée
Douaniers et contrebandiers
Esmeralda directed with Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
Espagne (Documentary short)
Être légume
Five O'Clock Tea
Jeune homme et le trottin
L'enfant du cordonnier
La charité du prestidigitateur
La fifille à sa mère
La malagueña et le torero
La mattchiche
La paimpolaise
La polka des trottins
La statue
Le bébé embarrassant
Le boléro cosmopolite
Le Cake-walk du Nouveau Cirque (Documentary short)
Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly
Le képi
Le lorgnon accusateur
Le pantalon coupé
Le pavé
Le petit Grégoire
Le petit panier
Le plateau
Le rire du nègre
Les maçons
Les p'tits pois
Le tango
Le trou de mon quai
Le vrai jiu-jitsu
Lilas blanc
Miss Helyett: Air du portrait
On est poivrot, mais on a du coeur
Peintre et ivrogne
Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit
Robert Macaire et Bertrand
Roméo pris au piège
Si ça t'va
Une noce au lac Saint-Fargeau
V'la le rétameur
Valsons
Viens, poupoule
Villa dévalisée
La valise enchantée
Cecil Hepworth[edit]
Baby's Toilet (directed)
The Other Side Of The Hedge (produced) directed by Lewin Fitzhamon
Rescued by Rover, starring Cecil Hepworth, Margaret Hepworth (his wife), Barbara Hepworth (their baby daughter), and Blair (their dog); co-directed by Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil Hepworth
Georges Méliès[edit]
An Adventurous Automobile Trip
The Black Imp
The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
The Living Playing Cards
The Palace of the Arabian Nights
Rip's Dream
Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus[1]
Edwin S. Porter[edit]
The Boarding School Girls (cinematography)
The Kleptomaniac (directed)
The Little Train Robbery a parodic sequel to the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery with an all-child cast, released on September 1, 1905.[2] Both were directed by Edwin S. Porter.
The Miller's Daughter is a 1905 American silent film produced by Edison Manufacturing Company. Edison employees Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter are generally credited as directors.[3] The film is based on the melodrama Hazel Kirke by Steele MacKaye.
The Night Before Christmas (directed) starring Harry Eytinge
The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (directed)
G. W. Bitzer[edit]
A Trip to Salt Lake City directed by G. W. Bitzer, the first known narrative film treatment of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In the Swimming Pool, Palm Beach, Florida (photographed) a silent short actuality/documentary film
James Williamson[edit]
Our New Errand Boy a British short silent comedy film, directed by James Williamson
Mitchell and Kenyon[edit]
Halifax Catholic Procession (produced)
Special March Past of St. Joseph's Scholars and Special Parade of St. Matthew's Pupils, Blackburn (produced)
Others[edit]
2 A. M. in the Subway a one shot, 53 second-long comedy filmed, and probably directed, by Billy Bitzer
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom, directed by J. Stuart Blackton
Airy Fairy Lillian Tries On Her New Corsets, produced by Frank Marion and Wallace McCutcheon
Automobile Races at Ormond, Fla., directed by Unknown person
The Bobby's Nightmare, directed by Alf Collins (British)
The Conscience, made in France.
Dingjun Mountain, Chinese silent film directed by Ren Qingtai
The D.T.'s, or The Effect of Drink, directed by William Haggar (British)
The Fairy of the Black Rocks (British)[4]
The Freak Barber, directed by J. H. Martin (British)
Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza is a 1903 or 1905 Spanish short black-and-white silent film directed by Segundo de Chomón.
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (Dutch: De mésaventure van een Fransch heertje zonder pantalon aan het strand te Zandvoort) is an early Dutch silent film directed by Willy Mullens, and produced by Alberts Frères. A six-minute short comedy film (really a slapstick),[5] it is one of the oldest surviving Dutch fictional films.[6] When the Netherlands Film Festival presented its canon of Dutch cinema (containing sixteen monumental films in Dutch film history) in 2007, it included this film.[7][8]
The Nihilist is an American short silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr..
La Presa di Roma, directed by Filoteo Alberini; possibly the first Italian short film
La Revolution en Russie, directed by Ferdinand Zecca
The Thirteen Club, produced by American Mutoscope[9]
Trip to the Center of the Moon (Viaggio al centro della luna), starring Mario Caserini (Italian)[10]
The Unfortunate Policeman a British short silent comedy film produced by Robert W. Paul
The Weavers, directed by the Manaki brothers; most likely the first film shot in the (then-Ottoman) Balkans
Births[edit]
Greta Garbo.
Howard Hughes.
January 3 – Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
January 12 – Tex Ritter, American actor, singer (d. 1974)
January 13 – Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
January 14 - Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992)
January 17 – Grant Withers, American actor (d. 1959)
January 26 – Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)
February 27 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
March 18 – Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
March 23 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
April 8 – Ilka Chase, American actress, (d. 1978)
April 17 – Arthur Lake, American actor (d. 1987)
May 1 – Leila Hyams, American actress (d. 1977)
May 15 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
May 16 – Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
June 19 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
July 29 – Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
August 2 – Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
August 3 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (d. 1983)
September 5 – Meta Luts, Estonian actress (d. 1958)
September 18 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
September 21 – Marguerite Roberts, American writer (d. 1989)
October 4 – Leslie Mitchell, British newsreel commentator (d. 1985)
October 10 – Aksella Luts, Estonian screenwriter and actress (d. 2005)
November 5 – Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
December 5 – Otto Preminger, Austro-Hungarian-American director (d. 1986)
December 11 – Gilbert Roland, Mexican-American actor (d. 1994)
December 24 – Howard Hughes, American director, producer, editor (d. 1976)
Deaths[edit]
March 24 – Jules Verne, famous novelist of fantasy stories and science-fiction, (born 1828)
March 25 – Maurice Barrymore, Barrymore family patriarch (born 1849)
April 23 – Joseph Jefferson, Rip Van Winkle (1896 film) (born 1829)
October 13 – Henry Irving, English Shakespearean actor and stage manager, who at one time was Bram Stoker's employer, (born 1838)
Debuts[edit]
Arthur Johnson – The White Caps (short)
Max Linder – First Night Out (short)
Paul Panzer – Stolen by Gypsies (short)
References[edit]
^Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 20.
^[1], Original release date.
^Niver, Kemp (1967). Motion Pictures From The Library of Congress Paper Print Collection 1894-1912. University of California Press, ISBN 978-0520009479
^Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 19.
^Draijer, Cor (2009-04-13). "Een heertje zonder pantalon". Genootschap Oud-Zandvoort. Archived from the original on 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
^Driessen, Kees (2007). Canon van de Nederlandse Film (PDF). Utrecht: Netherlands Film Festival. pp. 10–11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-23. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
^Zagt, Ab (2007-09-12). "Filmcanon wekt vooral woede op". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 2009-05-05.
^"Zestien films in Canon van de Nederlandse Film". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
^Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 20.
