1906 Movies

Two statues come to live and start to sing.

The parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a statue...

Long winded film runs just over six-minutes but we're pretty much shown Iceland's Parliament as they board a ship and are given a reception by the Dan...

An army of kitchen maids go on strike and take down all the men who come in their path.

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

The King and Queen travels to and from Trondhjems Domkirke.

One of the first Russian animated films, created by choreographer Alexander Shiryaev in the second half of the 1900s.

In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is wearing a brig...

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

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper and...

In a chase which literally encompasses the entire globe, a detective follows the path of an apparent embezzler through various foreign nations, exotic...

1906 comedy film by Edwin S. Porter, based on a popular song of the same title.

Boy tricks his father into drinking castor oil. The latter is obliged to defecate in a series of unlikely places, to the evident disgust of members of...

A delightful and typical farce film, ending with the usual Gallic chase.

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their advertisin...

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited India from November 1905 to March 19, 1906.

Fragments of military showing off.