Most Viewed Year 1906 - 1

A farmer's son, family facing foreclosure, goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins big, he goes back to the country and...

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

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)...

"Mireille" was filmed at the end of May, 1906, by a small team including Alice Guy, Herbert Blaché, Louis Feuillade and Yvonne Mugnier-Serand...

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

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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...

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

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

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

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

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

Two statues come to live and start to sing.

An old man, bell ringer at Notre Dame de Paris, disowns his daughter who has an affair with a young frivolous gentleman.

On an elaborately decorated stage, the titular troubadour of the title bows. He then proceeds to pull several cards out of mid air and arrange them...

A gentleman visits a hair consultant for his baldness problems. The latter recommends a new lotion. The gentleman lets himself be convinced and a...

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

In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of...