1906 Movies

A drunken man gets into a fight with everyone he meets.

The proud owner of a new car gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the street, hitting everything from lamp-posts to market stalls and baby carriages. An ever-increasing crowd of incensed pursuers chases after him.

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.

TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, there are views of TR and Manuel Amador Guerrero, first President of Panama, and two unidentified men arriving and standin...

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their advertising the Corricks described the detailed, hand-coloured production as 'The finest "Color" Film of the Twentieth C...

Lost film version of a novel (or scenes from a novel) written by Paul Siraudin.

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

While a balloon merchant sleeps on a river bank, a group of children steal his balloons and attach them to the hat of an old lady. Her hat and wig come off and a chase through Paris begins.

The pursuit of a highwayman taking a message to a knight (First British one-reel feature).

Herring fishing in Bohuslän, Sweden, as caught on camera in January 1906.

The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various operations necessary to prevent logs from jamming together. The men keep them headed with the flow of the water towar...

King Haakon and Queen Maud in Trondhjem.

Two boys and their dog set out to play a series of practical jokes on their neighbors. After they have caused several disruptions, the police are called, and soon the boys are on the run, pursued by the police and others. In their efforts to escape, the boys r...

A cowboy gets involved in the kidnapping and rescue of a pretty young girl.

Adventures of a peasant who comes to town wearing a magnificent top hat, which an unfortunate gust of wind throws onto the riverbank, into a crane, amidst the cascades of a public fountain, atop a coal pile, etc.

The 1906 version of the Kongerevue parade in Denmark.

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