Movies 1906

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

A scientist concocts a potion that can turn people invisible for short periods of time. Two crooks steal the potion and go on a crime spree.

Vera, daughter of a Cossack loves a young tartar who is the enemy of her father. She betrays her father to save the life of her lover, but loses her...

A short film about a dirigible.

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman. This film is a blatant remake of Georges Méliès's "La Chrysalide et le...

An Italian movie about Othello.

A young woman becomes pregnant and attempts to provide for her child after the father leaves her.

When Hell gets boring, head for Paris.

An artist watches as musical instruments come to life and St. Cecile appears. Segundo de Chomón's as director is speculative.

Alice Guy films the sea.

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

Young lovers separate, she to a career on the stage and he to remain in the small village in which they grew up. Years pass and he is hired to be a...

A poor boy is mistreated by his stepmother when his father isn't present.

Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they have a drink to seal the deal. They load his...

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

A man and a woman meet in a park in Paris and fall in love with each other. Four years later, they have a daughter, but the man is bored and decides...

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

One of the earliest Mexican feature-length documentary

A magician performs a magic show involving women turning into bouquets of roses. Later the roses are festooned together in a fancy way to decorate...

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

A horse fetches help when tramps attack its master.

An early short about fox hunting

The pursuit of a highwayman taking a message to a knight (First British one-reel feature).

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

A curate sits on an anthill at a picnic.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

A pulp writer dozes off at his desk and dreams himself into a melodrama of love and rivalry. What begins as a familiar tale soon veers into...

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)...

Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria...

Short film by Albert Capellani.

A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.

A car crash blows a lady with a parasol onto a steeple. An inventor with an airship comes to the rescue.

The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.

Sheep bound through a narrow opening, followed by a panoramic vista of the flock running through a meadow.

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper...

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

The effects of lightning.