1906 Movies

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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

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

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 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...

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

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 young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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 bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

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

An old astronomer has been transfixed by a star for a long time. He had but one thought: to travel to it, to declare his love for it! But how? A simpl...

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...

Christian IX (b. 1818) died 29 January 1906. He was king of Denmark for 42 years. With his many family ties to the royal houses of Europe, he was know...