1905 Movies

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dan...

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

An adaptation of an episode in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, where Jean Valjean is welcomed into the Bishop of Digne's home, and steals his silverware...

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

A tramp who unwittingly starts a fire is chased by a mob of peasants.

Ferdinand Zecca's remake of his own film "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901) with the same premise, showing a diver with reverse moti...

Monsieur Beaucaire, a French nobleman & relative of the King, engages in a sword fight with the jealous Duke of Winterset over a card game, leading to...

A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim....or is it his own conscience?

Splendid views of Edwardian Rochdale from the front of a tram after a recent dusting of snow.

'Zandvoort in an uproar! On Saturday morning at roughly 10 o’clock, with beautiful weather and calm seas, a Frenchman sat in a beach chair to gaze upo...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Two men get into a knife fight, in a Corsican tavern, and one of them kills another and escapes. He takes refuge in his house but escapes when the gua...

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and t...

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.

A group of men with a broken down auto get an assist from a man who can’t walk.

Beautiful girls emerge from a large beehive and perform graceful dances. The queen falls asleep and an enormous spider builds his web over her. The ot...

A woman performs the tango.

This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to 138...