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The year 1905 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• 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.

Films released in 1905

• Esmeralda
• The Kleptomaniac
• La presa di Roma
• Sherlock Holmes Baffled (Mutoscope series concluded)

Births

• January 3 - Anna May Wong, actress (d. 1961)
• January 3 - Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986)
• January 12 - Tex Ritter, actor, singer (d. 1974)
• February 14 - Thelma Ritter, actress (d. 1965)
• February 27 - Franchot Tone, actor (d. 1968)
• March 18 - Robert Donat, actor (d. 1958)
• March 23 - Joan Crawford, actress (d. 1977)
• May 1 - Leila Hyams, actress (d. 1977)
• May 15 - Joseph Cotten, actor (d. 1994)
• May 16 - Henry Fonda, actor (d. 1982)
• June 19 - Mildred Natwick, actress (d. 1994)
• July 29 - Thelma Todd, actress (d. 1935)
• July 29 - Clara Bow, actress (d. 1965)
• August 2 - Myrna Loy, actress (d. 1993)
• August 3 - Dolores del Rio, actress (d. 1983)
• September 18 - Greta Garbo, actress (d. 1990)
• September 21 - Marguerite Roberts, writer (d. 1989)
• November 5 - Joel McCrea, actor (d. 1990)

Deaths

• (unknown)