1905 in film

none 1905 film music radio The year 1905 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ 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 (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. Notable films # 2 A.M. in the Subway, directed by Billy Bitzer – (US) A Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (lost), directed by J. Stuart Blackton, based on the 1890 novel The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle – (US) An Adventurous Automobile Trip (Le Raid Paris–Monte Carlo en deux heures), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) Airy Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets, directed by Frank Marion and Wallace McCutcheon Sr. – (US) Automobile Races at Ormond, Fla., produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company – (US) B Baby's Toilet, directed by Cecil Hepworth – (UK) The Black Imp (Le Diable noir), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) Boarding School Girls, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) C Le Cake-walk du Nouveau Cirque (Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque), directed by Alice Guy – (France) La charité du prestidigitateur (The Magician's Alms), directed by Alice Guy – (France) Chien jouant à la balle (Clown, Dog and Balloon), directed by Alice Guy – (France) Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly (Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster), directed by Alice Guy – (France) D Dingjun Mountain (lost), directed by Ren Qingtai – (China) E The Enchanted Sedan Chair (La Chaise à porteurs enchantée), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) Esmeralda, directed by Alice Guy and Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, based upon the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo – (France) Espagne, directed by Alice Guy – (France) F Five O'Clock Tea, directed by Alice Guy, starring Dranem – (France) H Halifax Catholic Procession, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – (UK) Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza (The Heroes of the Siege of Saragossa), directed by Segundo de Chomón – (Spain) I In the Swimming Pool, Palm Beach, Florida, directed by G. W. Bitzer – (US) The Infernal Cave (L'antre infernale), directed by Gaston Velle – (France) The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (Le Dirigeable fantastique ou le Cauchemar d'un inventeur), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) K The Kleptomaniac, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) L Lilas blanc (White Lilacs), directed by Alice Guy, starring Félix Mayol – (France) The Little Train Robbery, directed by Edwin S. Porter, Original release date. – (US) The Living Playing Cards (Les Cartes vivantes), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) M Les maçons (The Bricklayers), directed by Alice Guy – (France) La malagueña et le torero (The Malagueña and the Bullfighter), directed by Alice Guy – (France) The Miller's Daughter, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. and Edwin S. Porter,Niver, Kemp (1967). Motion Pictures From The Library of Congress Paper Print Collection 1894-1912. University of California Press, 978-0520009479 based on the 1880 stage play Hazel Kirke by Steele 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 by Willy Mullens – (Netherlands) The Mysterious Island (L'Île de Calypso), directed by Georges Méliès,Kinnard, Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. 0-7864-0036-6. Page 20. based upon the ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey by Homer – (France) N The Night Before Christmas, directed by Edwin S. Porter, starring Harry Eytinge, based upon the 1823 poem by Clement Clarke Moore – (US) The Nihilist, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. – (US) O The Other Side of the Hedge, directed by Lewin Fitzhamon – (UK) Our New Errand Boy, directed by James Williamson – (UK) P The Palace of the Arabian Nights (Le Palais des mille et une nuits), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit (Polin, the Anatomy of a Conscript), directed by Alice Guy – (France) La polka des trottins (The Trottins' Polka), directed by Alice Guy, starring Félix Mayol – (France) La Presa di Roma (The Capture of Rome), directed by Filoteo Alberini – (Italy) R Rescued by Rover, directed by Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil Hepworth – (UK) Revolution in Russia (La révolution en Russie), directed by Lucien Nonguet – (France) Rip's Dream (La Légende de Rip Van Vinckle), directed by Georges Méliès, based upon the 1819 short story Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving – (France) S The Seven Ages, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) Special March Past of St. Joseph's Scholars and Special Parade of St. Matthew's Pupils, Blackburn, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – (UK) La statue (The Statue), directed by Alice Guy – (France) T Le tango (The Tango), directed by Alice Guy – (France) A Trip to Salt Lake City, directed by G. W. Bitzer – (US) U The Unfortunate Policeman, produced by Robert W. Paul – (UK) V Le vrai jiu-jitsu (The True Jiu-jitsu), directed by Alice Guy – (France) W The Weavers, directed by the Manaki Brothers – (Balkans) The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) Births thumb|200px|Greta Garbo. thumb|200px|Howard Hughes. Month Date Name Country Profession Died January 3 Anna May Wong US Actress 1961 12 Tex Ritter US Actor, singer 1974 13 Kay Francis US Actress 1968 15 Sterling Holloway US Actor 1992 17 Grant Withers US Actor 1959 18 Chick Chandler US Actor 1988 26 Charles Lane US Actor 2007 February 21 Henry Mollison UK Actor 1985 27 Franchot Tone US Actor, producer, director 1968 March 10 Richard Haydn UK Actor 1985 17 Lillian Yarbo US Actress 1996Delightful Side Smallwood, Bill March 16, 1947 Los Angeles Sentinel 17 Billye [sic] Yarbo and Nat Cole both birthday on the 17th. 562108876 18 Robert Donat UK Actor 1958 23 Joan Crawford US Actress 1977 April 8 Ilka Chase US Actress 1978 17 Arthur Lake US Actor 1987 May 1 Leila Hyams US Actress, model 1977 15 Joseph Cotten US Actor 1994 16 Henry Fonda US Actor 1982 June 19 Mildred Natwick US Actress 1994 25 Arthur Maria Rabenalt Austria Director 1993 July 13 Edvin Laine Finland Director, actor 1989 17 William Gargan US Actor 1979 29 Clara Bow US Actress 1965 August 2 Myrna Loy US Actress 1993 2 Ruth Nelson US Actress 1992"Ruth Nelson". 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September 5 Meta Luts Estonia Actress 1958 18 Greta Garbo Sweden Actress 1990 21 Marguerite Roberts US Screenwriter 1989 22 Muriel Box UK Director, screenwriter 1991 30 Michael Powell UK Filmmaker 1990 October 7 Andy Devine US Actor 1977 10 Aksella Luts Estonia Actress, screenwriter, dancer, choreographer, editor 2005 November 5 Joel McCrea US Actor 1990 7 William Alwyn UK Composer 1985 17 Mischa Auer Russia Actor 1967 27 Astrid Allwyn US Actress 1978 December 5 Otto Preminger Austria-Hungary Director, producer, actor 1986 11 Gilbert Roland Mexico Actor 1994 24 Howard Hughes US Director, producer, editor 1976 Deaths March 24 – Jules Verne, 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 Arthur Johnson – The White Caps (short) Max Linder – First Night Out (short) Paul Panzer – Stolen by Gypsies (short) External links PLoHEmNPV3oBhmgPubmhJF3TCdv2KsANm1 1905 in film List of 1905 films at IMDb List of 1905 deaths at IMDb List of 1905 births at IMDb References Category:Film by year