1906 Movies

Kong Frederik VIII of Denmark vists Kristiania (aka Oslo) in 1906.

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

A notary's clerk and the cleaning woman play a trick on their employer. This earns the clerk a box on the ears. They up the stakes by writing letters...

Newsreel covering the funeral of the Danish king Christan IX in Roskilde, Denmark, on February 16th, 1906.

A man collapses while drinking a cup of coffee. His wife and their servant raise a hand and releases it. It drops imertly. He's dead. His worries are...

Leaving for town, a peasant comes upon a witch who puts him under her spell. Neither the jeers of his companions or the supplications of his young wif...

The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.

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...

In the beginning of the film, a streetcar passes in front of the camera position. The camera starts to move, indicating that it was on a streetcar sin...

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...

A man plays with three young women at the beach while his wife is alseep.

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 t...

Although the title proclaims this to be Athens 1896, the first Olympic Games of the modern era, this film is almost certainly of the so-called Interca...

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.

Smugglers land their goods. Customs inspectors spot them and take off in pursuit.

A payroll clerk is framed by a man competing with him for the attentions of a mill girl.

A comedic short by Gaumont.

A short clip showing Holger Drachmann.