1905 Movies

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...

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by...

Based loosely on the once-popular nursery rhyme. A fair is in progress, with refreshments, entertainment, and other activities. As the rest of the cro...

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early f...

The assassination of the Grand Duke Serge.

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

A woman receives her lover at home but the husband arrives having to hide him in a trunk. They go on a trip and the porters do not treat the trunk ver...

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?

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A policeman has breakfast with his wife and children, and then prepares for the day's work. While on his beat, he finds and helps a lost child. Later,...

Students collecting money for the children.

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special c...

A film adaptation of the play by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey.

The Kaiser was an unpopular guest in Denmark. Both for personal and political reasons, the Danish court did not want to have too close ties to the Ger...

The future king Gustaf VI Adolf and wife arrive in Stockholm

A magician shows tricks with money.

Also showing Cortina mountain and general surroundings.

In this parody of 1903's "Great Train Robbery", also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by pol...

This has more of a clear narrative than most of the films in the set although it’s still quite odd and random compared to today’s films. There are som...

A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they rea...