1906 Movies

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

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...

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

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...

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 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...

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)...

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

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.

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

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...

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

The Anarchist's Mother-in-Law premiered on October 23, 1906. It featured director Viggo Larsen as the anarchist and Margrethe Jespersen as his wife....

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)...

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

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.

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...

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 group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

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...

Immigrants and boats departing and arriving at Ellis Island.

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...

Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria...

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one...

A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by...

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...

Film showing the results of an earthquake in San Francisco on 18th April 1906 which caused great destruction.

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...

Panorama, Notorius 'Barbary Coast' after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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...

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...

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