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The year1905 in film involved some significant events.

• TheManaki brothers make the first motion picture in theBalkans,The Weavers.
• Pathé Frères colors black-and-white films by machine.
• Filmmaking takes an unexpected historical role by recording activities alongMarket Street, in the year preceding the destruction from theSan Francisco earthquake of 1906 (footage in the modern filmTrip Down Market Street 1905/2005).
• Aleksandr Khanzhonkov begins filming his firstdocumentaries.
• The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach, the oldest surviving Dutch fictional film is released byAlberts Frères. Later to be included in the canon of Dutch cinema as released by theNetherlands Film Festival.
• June 19 –John P. Harris and his brother Harry inPittsburgh open the firsttheater in theU.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.

• 2 A.M. in the Subway, directed byBilly Bitzer – (US)

• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (lost), directed byJ. Stuart Blackton, based on the 1890 novelThe Sign of the Four byArthur Conan Doyle – (US)
• An Adventurous Automobile Trip (Le Raid Paris–Monte Carlo en deux heures), directed byGeorges Méliès – (France)
• Airy Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets, directed byFrank Marion andWallace McCutcheon Sr. – (US)
• Automobile Races at Ormond, Fla., produced by theAmerican Mutoscope and Biograph Company – (US)

• Baby's Toilet, directed byCecil Hepworth – (UK)
• The Black Imp (Le Diable noir), directed byGeorges Méliès – (France)
• Boarding School Girls, directed byEdwin S. Porter – (US)

• Le Cake-walk du Nouveau Cirque (Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque), directed byAlice Guy – (France)
• La charité du prestidigitateur (The Magician's Alms), directed byAlice Guy – (France)
• Chien jouant à la balle (Clown, Dog and Balloon), directed byAlice Guy – (France)
• Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly (Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster), directed byAlice Guy – (France)

• Dingjun Mountain (lost), directed by Ren Qingtai – (China)

• The Enchanted Sedan Chair (La Chaise à porteurs enchantée), directed byGeorges Méliès – (France)
• Esmeralda, directed byAlice Guy andVictorin-Hippolyte Jasset, based upon the 1831 novelThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame byVictor Hugo – (France)
• Espagne, directed byAlice Guy – (France)

• Five O'Clock Tea, directed byAlice Guy, starringDranem – (France)

• Halifax Catholic Procession, produced byMitchell and Kenyon – (UK)
• Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza (The Heroes of the Siege of Saragossa), directed bySegundo de Chomón – (Spain)

• In the Swimming Pool, Palm Beach, Florida, directed byG. W. Bitzer – (US)
• The Infernal Cave (L'antre infernale), directed byGaston Velle – (France)
• The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (Le Dirigeable fantastique ou le Cauchemar d'un inventeur), directed byGeorges Méliès – (France)

• The Kleptomaniac, directed byEdwin S. Porter – (US)

• Lilas blanc (White Lilacs), directed byAlice Guy, starringFélix Mayol – (France)
• The Little Train Robbery, directed byEdwin S. Porter^[1] – (US)
• The Living Playing Cards (Les Cartes vivantes), directed byGeorges Méliès – (France)

• Les maçons (The Bricklayers), directed byAlice Guy – (France)
• La malagueña et le torero (The Malagueña and the Bullfighter), directed byAlice Guy – (France)
• The Miller's Daughter, directed byWallace McCutcheon Sr. andEdwin S. Porter,^[2] based on the 1880 stage playHazel Kirke bySteele MacKaye – (US)
• The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (De mésaventure van een Fransch heertje zonder pantalon aan het strand te Zandvoort), directed byWilly Mullens – (Netherlands)
• The Mysterious Island (L'Île de Calypso), directed byGeorges Méliès,^[3] based upon the ancient Greek epic poem theOdyssey byHomer – (France)

• The Night Before Christmas, directed byEdwin S. Porter, starringHarry Eytinge, based upon the1823 poem byClement Clarke Moore – (US)
• The Nihilist, directed byWallace McCutcheon Sr. – (US)

• The Other Side of the Hedge, directed byLewin Fitzhamon – (UK)
• Our New Errand Boy, directed byJames Williamson – (UK)

• The Palace of the Arabian Nights (Le Palais des mille et une nuits), directed byGeorges Méliès – (France)
• Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit (Polin, the Anatomy of a Conscript), directed byAlice Guy – (France)
• La polka des trottins (The Trottins' Polka), directed byAlice Guy, starringFélix Mayol – (France)
• La Presa di Roma (The Capture of Rome), directed byFiloteo Alberini – (Italy)

• Rescued by Rover, directed byLewin Fitzhamon andCecil Hepworth – (UK)
• Revolution in Russia (La révolution en Russie), directed byLucien Nonguet – (France)
• Rip's Dream (La Légende de Rip Van Vinckle), directed byGeorges Méliès, based upon the 1819 short storyRip Van Winkle byWashington Irving – (France)

• The Seven Ages, directed byEdwin S. Porter – (US)
• Special March Past of St. Joseph's Scholars and Special Parade of St. Matthew's Pupils, Blackburn, produced byMitchell and Kenyon – (UK)
• La statue (The Statue), directed byAlice Guy – (France)

• Le tango (The Tango), directed byAlice Guy – (France)
• A Trip to Salt Lake City, directed byG. W. Bitzer – (US)

• The Unfortunate Policeman, produced byRobert W. Paul – (UK)

• Le vrai jiu-jitsu (The True Jiu-jitsu), directed byAlice Guy – (France)

• The Weavers, directed by theManaki Brothers – (Balkans)
• The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog, directed byEdwin S. Porter – (US)

• 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 wasBram Stoker's employer, (born 1838)

• Arthur Johnson –The White Caps (short)
• Max Linder –First Night Out (short)
• Paul Panzer –Stolen by Gypsies (short)

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