Most Viewed Year 1906

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

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

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

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...

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...

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

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

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

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)...

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

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...

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

A look at typical activities taking place in the Peek Frean factory: First, the workers get up steam, as supplies of milk and flour arrive. Sheets of...

Alice Guy films the sea.

Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria...

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

King Haakon on the boat of Crown Prince Christian.

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...

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.