Movies 1906 Page 16

A large, jewelry-laden Black king and his entourage arrive in Paris, where he mistakenly eats soap and candles before trying to consume a baby....

Clowns on bicycles: that pretty much sums up this short Pathe comedy. They dress in various costumes. The bicycles are in varying states of...

Stage set with painted backdrop of ocean & pier. Two women in bathing suits with broom, one catches & other swings. They argue with man in bathing...

A man is obsessed with playing billards.

Pitou get some leave, so he goes to see his girlfriend, the cook at a house. When her other boyfriend comes in, she makes Pitou hide in the coal...

The ramshackle-looking train on the single-track line pulls into the station, just in front of the siding. People clumb down and go on their ways.

A drunk crawls into a barrel. Some boys push the barrel into the street, where it rolls hither and yon for five minutes of screen time, doubtless...

The title reads "Hailing Drags". You'd expect some sort of travois affair, but it turns out to be mules hailing sugar cane loaded onto wheeled flats....

While a pretty girl chats with the customs-agents, smugglers try to sneak across the border.

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once...

A hunter with his leg stuck in a wolf trap sends his young son for help – unfortunately the boy is easily distracted and loses track of his mission.

Comedy ensues when two men accidentally swap hats at the barber's. After discovering the mix-up, the first man to leave returns to the shop to...

This Walter G. Chase film about epileptic seizures was photographed from a single camera position against a backdrop of dark canvas.

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

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...

Video photage of a military maneuver in Östergötland, Sweden.

Following an argument, the wife returns to her mother. The mother-in-law tries to make them divorce, but they reconcile in the end.

Vertical panorama City Hall and surroundings after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

A housewife is particularly determined to get her cooking knife sharpened by a travelling grinder, terrifying her neighbors and assorted pedestrians...

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.