Movies 1906 Page 5

The coronation of King Håkon (Haakon VII) of Norway in 1905.

Jeux olympiques d’Athènes depicts events at the 1906 Athens Olympics (or Intercalated Games), the first of the Games known to be filmed.

This Lubin actuality of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake begins with a group of men, pans to the left, and the people vanish, leaving...

On a winter evening, a poor peasant woman waited for her husband, who had gone to gather firewood in the forest. He finally arrived. The man and...

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

Short film showcasing a circus clown act.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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...

Lost film version of a novel (or scenes from a novel) written by Paul Siraudin.

Austrian military detachment out for Ski practice, showing how the Ski may be used in crossing snow-covered and ice hardened surfaces with great...

A car crash blows a lady with a parasol onto a steeple. An inventor with an airship comes to the rescue.

In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of striptease and...

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...

A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the...

1906, produced by Charles Urban, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

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

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

At the beginning of the film, a group of men can be seen gathered around a flat area near a large municipal gas tank. Most of the group are attending...

A bunch of people traveling by foot or on horseback past the camera in Hawaii.

Early Biograph short on the results of marrying for financial gain.

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

A short film of the tale of Mother Holly.

The view from the pilot of an Ulster and Delaware locomotive pulling out of Kingston Union Station through Kingston, NY, in 1906.

Riders at a cavalry school take the horses through their paces, jumping over fences and walls, descending steep slopes, and fording streams. Some...

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

Some men stalk a lady on her way to the beach.

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...

Despite the lurid title, no one gets shot in this long actuality from Lubin. Instead, it's another panorama, as indicated in the movie's alternative...

Two Indian women wash a baby with a jug of water, while a man with a turban sits behind them.

A huge throng of spectators watches a car race.

In 1906 a cameraman boarded a streetcar in Boston and rode around the city, wherever that vehicle took him. The film is exceptional, because it shows...

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

This film is made up of five panoramas, four wide and one close-up, of the ruins of downtown San Francisco shortly after the 1906 disaster, plus a...

A film by the Edison Company showing the devastation of the April 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

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

Crooks in an armored car-- the modern-day pirates-- trespass, murder and rob other motorists while sailing the roadways. Able to traverse small...