Movies 1906 Page 2

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

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

A horse fetches help when tramps attack its master.

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

All the fun of the Whitsuntide Fair in Edwardian Preston.

A curate sits on an anthill at a picnic.

A father shoots his son dead because, lured by the offer of a watch, he revealed to the police where his father had hidden smugglers who had come to...

A sequel to the last film from 1900, a single one-act “talkie” sound on-disk film produced by the Royal Bioscope

A trip through Vienna on a tram.

"Alice Guy-Blaché liked Feuillade's scripts, and one of them, Le coup de vent, was filmed by Etienne Armaud in 1905. Two years later, Alice left...

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an...

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

A short film documenting the wedding ceremony of Princess Ena to King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Showing the royal carriage, the royal procession through...

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

An old man, bell ringer at Notre Dame de Paris, disowns his daughter who has an affair with a young frivolous gentleman.

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

A gust of wind leads a man on a merry chase through the city, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake as he pursues his errant hat.

A young peasant leaves his cottage after a quarrel with his wife, and meets a witch. She takes him to a cavern, where after a series of encounters...

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)...

On an elaborately decorated stage, the titular troubadour of the title bows. He then proceeds to pull several cards out of mid air and arrange them...

A troop of soldiers on horseback enter San Francisco with relief supplies following the earthquake that year.

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...

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

A short documentary based on Wilhelm Voigt.

The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the...

Automobile rally mounted as part of the wedding festivities of the Spanish King Alfonso and Princess Eva.

t's one of those pageants from history, in which Roman centurions fight caveman with halberds, Queen Elizabeth arrives in a carriage, and another...

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

Crooks in an armored car-- the modern-day pirates-- trespass, murder and rob other motorists while sailing the roadways. Able to traverse small...

TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, there are...

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

This one-reel documentary is pretty much what it says in the title. Cavalrymen ride their horses, first over low hedges, then over increasingly rough...

TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, in Panama...

A father forbids his daughter to marry her fiance and orders him out of the house, so the fiance arranges for the couple to elope--and with angry dad...

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film...

The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various...

A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the...

This is the oldest preserved film recorded in Iceland. It shows from a firefighting exercise that took place in Reykjavík in 1906.

A new skyscraper is being built in New York City, and numerous workmen are busy at hazardous jobs high above the ground. When one of the workers,...