Movies 1906 Page 6

When New Zealand’s longest-serving prime minister, Richard John Seddon, suddenly took ill and died during his voyage home from a diplomatic trip to...

Spirited Ukrainian trepak dance, performed by Russian soloist Wania Tartakoff. (Stumfilm.DK)

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

Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's visit to La Albufera (Valencia).

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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...

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...

Highlights of the Athens 1906 Olympic Games.

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

The shift of the crown was paralleled by a new epoch of cinema in Denmark. Peter Elfelt had been the dominant figure in early Danish film. After some...

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

A drunken man gets into a fight with everyone he meets.

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

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...

Herring fishing in Bohuslän, Sweden, as caught on camera in January 1906.

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

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

This film is made up of five panoramas, four wide and one close-up, of the ruins of downtown San Francisco shortly after the 1906 disaster, plus a...

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited India from November 1905 to March 19, 1906.

A view of King Street in Hawaii.

A panoramic view of Market Street San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906

A film by the Edison Company showing the devastation of the April 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

A wife has a vision of her miner husband being killed at the site of his claim. She finds the murderer, now living in luxury, and exacts revenge.

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

Thieves plot to steal the gifts at a wedding.

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

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.

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

This early film offers a snapshot of what became known as the Interim (or Intercalated) Games of 1906. Having hosted the first modern Games in 1896,...

Farther west on the Ulster and Delaware track, our camera locomotive overtakes a U. & D. Switcher rocking and rolling along. Perhaps filmed on the...

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

The ramshackle-looking train on the single-track line pulls into the station, just in front of the siding. People clumb down and go on their ways.

Panorama, Nob Hill and Ruins of Millionaire Residences after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Scenes of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

A comedic short by Gaumont.