Movies 1906 Page 3

In all likeliness an inspiration for Griffith's The Lonely Villa (1909), Terrible Anguish tells the brief and tragic tale of a family being torn...

A beautiful seductive fairy makes gentle winged creatures appear.

A fat man has lost his glasses and runs into all types of problems trying to find them.

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

The coronation of King Håkon (Haakon VII) of Norway in 1905.

A tramp steals food from a picnicking professor and is blown up.

A drunk man is going to buy more drink at his wife's expense, which he takes advantage of to get more drunk.

Two statues come to live and start to sing.

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

An evil magician visits the rajah's palace to perform his magic tricks, but he also steals a valuable casket making his getaway aboard a dragon. The...

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

A story of a desperate wife who worries about her husband, a career wrestler.

An early short about fox hunting

The effects of lightning.

An army of kitchen maids go on strike and take down all the men who come in their path.

With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to...

Short film showcasing a circus clown act.

A group of young men and women are bathing in a lake when a park policeman interrupts their fun. He falls in the lake and the girls ride off on their...

Despite the lurid title, no one gets shot in this long actuality from Lubin. Instead, it's another panorama, as indicated in the movie's alternative...

The view from the pilot of an Ulster and Delaware locomotive pulling out of Kingston Union Station through Kingston, NY, in 1906.

A Trip Down Market Street is a 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it travels down San...

Some men stalk a lady on her way to the beach.

Riders at a cavalry school take the horses through their paces, jumping over fences and walls, descending steep slopes, and fording streams. Some...

Cast fishing in Hilo.

In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is wearing a...

A dog trails bankrobbers and saves its master's life.

Two boys and their dog set out to play a series of practical jokes on their neighbors. After they have caused several disruptions, the police are...

This Walter G. Chase film about epileptic seizures was photographed from a single camera position against a backdrop of dark canvas.

Immigrants and boats departing and arriving at Ellis Island.

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once...

In the beginning of the film, a streetcar passes in front of the camera position. The camera starts to move, indicating that it was on a streetcar...

1906 comedy film by Edwin S. Porter, based on a popular song of the same title.

An office boy plays hooky from work so he can watch a ballgame perched high atop a telephone pole. Includes footage of an actual baseball game as if...

A payroll clerk is framed by a man competing with him for the attentions of a mill girl.

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

A static shot of crowded trams returning people from an unknown sporting event.

The Alps through a telescope.