Movies 1906 Page 4

The head of the family, in search of money, dons the clothes left by the village priest. He commits a terrible deed, and later, the priest learns of...

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their...

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...

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

An old astronomer named Nigadimus has been transfixed by a star for a long time. He had but one thought: to travel to it, to declare his love for it!...

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and...

Short film by Albert Capellani.

Jeux olympiques d’Athènes depicts events at the 1906 Athens Olympics (or Intercalated Games), the first of the Games known to be filmed.

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.

Depicts the exit of the President of the Republic Tomás Estrada Palma from the Presidential Palace, after giving the government to the Secretary of...

On a winter evening, a poor peasant woman waited for her husband, who had gone to gather firewood in the forest. He finally arrived. The man and...

An old astronomer has been transfixed by a star for a long time. He had but one thought: to travel to it, to declare his love for it! But how? A...

View taken from the deck of a tourist boat as it sets out on the river, showing images of the Falls as the ship and its passengers travel down the...

A Pierrot and Harlequin clown act with a ball. Animated by Aleksandr Shiryayev sometime between 1906-1909.

Alexander Shiryaev created “The Fool’s Dance” in Marius Petipa’s 1896 revival of the ballet “Mlada”, with music by Ludwig Minkus, at the...

Little Bob stages his mechanical toys in a series of charming performances.

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the...

There are a lot of circular pans in this very long (for 1906) travelogue showing the waterfroot of Lucerne, followed by a long moving shot (taken...

Two tunnel workers are fighting over the wife of one, who's also involved with the other. Suddenly an explosion occurs. Instead of fighting, they...

It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the chimney's collapse, crowds swarm in to inspect the...

A farmer's son, family facing foreclosure, goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins big, he goes back to the country and...

Mlle. Consoli does a bunch of jetes, surrounded by other ballerinas. Then they surround her, and when she next appears, she is standing en point on a...

Biograph's reconstitution of the 1905 eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

A man owes his life to a marketplace melon.

Two Indian women wash a baby with a jug of water, while a man with a turban sits behind them.

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

Indian Freedom Fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak bathes in the river Ganges. One of the first moving images captured in India. The beginning of Indian...

A huge throng of spectators watches a car race.

A view of Waikiki in 1906.

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

Shows how they cut the wool off of sheep.

A young man is hired as a guard for an insane asylum. Immediately the inmates start harassing him and he flees. The inmates give chase and they...

A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short.

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...

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

A camera starts on a sloppy scene: people walking around, a building that's seen better days, palm trees, with fronds waving in the breeze. As the...

A championship fight that took place in the Nevada goldfields between boxers Joe Gans and Battling Nelson.