1906 Movies

Depicts the chaos at a circus following an ape’s untimely escape.

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

At a masked ball, a husband discovers that his wife has been unfaithful and challenges her lover to a duel.

When his wife gives to the ragman a pair of tan trousers in which all his money is kept, a man proceeds to rip the trousers off everyone he meets.

Called away by a telegram, Ducornard leaves his wife alone in the house. She isn't alone for long since she is soon joined by her lover.

Shows Chinatown in ruins after the 1906 earthquake.

This early film offers a snapshot of what became known as the Interim (or Intercalated) Games of 1906. Having hosted the first modern Games in 1896, A...

A wife has a vision of her miner husband being killed at the site of his claim. She finds the murderer, now living in luxury, and exacts revenge.

This movie chronicling the visit of Frederick VIII to the city of Aarhus.

An elevated moving view along George Street in Sydney, recording the traffic, trams, pedestrians and commercial life of one of the city’s main thoroug...

Short silent film where the word flower appears when two women trow flower petals on a tableau.

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

A rich man receives money and loses his wallet in a park. He finds her a tramp who begins to spend all the money with no sense, to lose everything.

A Poacher on the loose.

There are a lot of circular pans in this very long (for 1906) travelogue showing the waterfroot of Lucerne, followed by a long moving shot (taken from...

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....

Shepherds in Hawaii push a flock of sheep in line through a trough of water.