1906 Movies

While on a walk, the six soldiers' wives are kidnapped by six officers. After recovering their wives, the soliders are punished for three days by the...

The Tsarist police penetrate a imprimerie clandestine. The sister of one is Nadia. She gets sent to Siberia and her brother makes a bomb for vengeance...

An aria from Daniel Auber's comic opera on phonograph accompanies the images on screen.

A mattress maker briefly leaves the mattress she's mending. A drunkard leaving the café sits down on it. The woman returns and finishes her work. Then...

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

A British soldier is made prisoner by a Zulu, who tries to set fire on the Union Jack. A bulldog runs on the rescue terrorizing the Zulu. This allows...

A soldier steals his officer's money and asks the music-hall singer he is mad about to run awy with him.

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 sui...

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

The King visits Aarhus.

As soon as he wakes up, the unfortunate debtor is assailed by a crowd of creditors who, bill in hand, throw themselves on the unfortunate man. Pursued...

A group of young men and women are bathing in a lake when a park policeman interrupts their fun. He falls in the lake and the girls ride off on their...

This is the oldest preserved film recorded in Iceland. It shows from a firefighting exercise that took place in Reykjavík in 1906.

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

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 o...

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

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

This maid breaks the dishes, so it's off to the employment office. The next one tries on her mistress's clothes and gets kissed by the master, so it's...

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