1906 Movies

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.

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

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

A short film from Slovenia made by Karol Grossmann.

A balding man drinks a whole bottle of hair tonic. The unexpected surplus of hair promises a successful showbiz career for him and his wife.

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 kidnapped....

Alice Guy films the sea.

This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to 138...

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 Francisc...

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 brig...

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

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

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 alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

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 ev...

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 chil...

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

The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.

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 c...