1906 Movies

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

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

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 takes...

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

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 e...

The short clip shows a spiritualist séance featuring a medium and two ‘spirits’, shot in Peter Elfelt’s studio. Dr Faustinus (1868–1946 – real name Fa...

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

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) symbolizes...

A look at typical activities taking place in the Peek Frean factory: First, the workers get up steam, as supplies of milk and flour arrive. Sheets of...

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 call...

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 sav...

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 included...

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

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

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

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unro...

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

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.