Movies 1906

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

A short film about a dirigible.

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 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.

An Italian movie about Othello.

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...

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

Alice Guy films the sea.

When Hell gets boring, head for Paris.

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

One of the earliest Mexican feature-length documentary

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Newsreel covering the visit of Sweden’s King Oscar II in the city of Kristianstad in September 1906.

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 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...

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

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

A horse fetches help when tramps attack its master.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

A curate sits on an anthill at a picnic.

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

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

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)...

An early short about fox hunting

The effects of lightning.

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...

Short film by Albert Capellani.

Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...

A father saves his kidnapped daughter.

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.

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one...

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...

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

A cowboy gets involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a pretty young girl.