Movies 1906 Page 8

View of the Lerfossen near Trondhjem.

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...

Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's return from his voyage to La Abufera (Valencia).

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...

This is, for 1906, a strikingly ambitious prototype-documentary travelogue filmed in and around the cities now called Kolkata and Mumbai. It's full...

An aria from Daniel Auber's comic opera on phonograph accompanies the images on screen.

Short silent film about the difficulty caused by these dresses in getting out of the car without offending the modesty of passers-by.

Lost phonoscène film, attributed to Louis Feulliade.

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...

Lost film version of a novel (or scenes from a novel) written by Paul Siraudin.

Lost short film

Boy tricks his father into drinking castor oil. The latter is obliged to defecate in a series of unlikely places, to the evident disgust of members...

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...

Lost short film

The King and Queen travels to and from Trondhjems Domkirke.

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...

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...