Movies 1906 Page 5

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

Three young women are smiling and playing in a lake, their nude bodies reflecting in the water, when a forest watcher appears from the wood, and...

A bunch of people run an obstacle course all around town.

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

Lost short film

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.

A family sends a man out for some bread. Instead, he seems to be trying to find every drink in Paris. Another man goes out after him, but does the...

The film was taken the 27th of May, 1906 during the Gran Corrida organized by the Press Association of Nîmes. Although lost, it should not be...

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

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

The effects of lightning.

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

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...

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...

Madame Durand goes for a walk and is oblivious to practically everything. She ends up making a nuisance of herself again and again. It's so bad that...

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...

Highlights of the Athens 1906 Olympic Games.

A soldier steals his officer's money and asks the music-hall singer he is mad about to run awy with him.

There's no harbor, and the ship lies some distance off shore..... then the camera pans and a tender has to be sent out amidst the rough water.

Stage set with painted backdrop of ocean & pier. Two women in bathing suits with broom, one catches & other swings. They argue with man in bathing...

Document of a 1906 prize-fight.

At the beginning of the film, a group of men can be seen gathered around a flat area near a large municipal gas tank. Most of the group are attending...

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...

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

A view of King Street in Hawaii.

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

A boy named Willie "snaps everything in sight" with his new camera. His targets included: Family members (Ma, Pa, Grandma, Grandpa), family pets (the...

After the San Francisco Earthquake knocked the city out, and the fires did more damage, many of the refugees from the devastated area settled in a...

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

Shepherds in Hawaii push a flock of sheep in line through a trough of water.

The documentary features the oldest footage ever taken of surfing, and it was shot in Hawaii by Robert Bonine.

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...

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.

A man gives away an inherited hat, then finds it contains a will.

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.

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