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...

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

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a...

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

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an...

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

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

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...

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 bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

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.

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

A woman receives her lover at home but the husband arrives having to hide him in a trunk. They go on a trip and the porters do not treat the trunk...

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...

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

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

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

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...

A writer of tawdry fiction falls asleep at his desk and dreams of a romantic rivalry-- One likely as familiar to film fans then as it is now-- But...

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...

Short film about a dreaming musician