1906 Movies

The ramshackle-looking train on the single-track line pulls into the station, just in front of the siding. People clumb down and go on their ways.

The documentary features the oldest footage ever taken of surfing, and it was shot in Hawaii by Robert Bonine.

Two soldiers appear at a private house and demand lodging.

A photographer welcomes a theather actress into his studio for a glamor shoot.

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.

Susan drinks her employers wine and has trouble serving them coffee.

A man collapses while drinking a cup of coffee. His wife and their servant raise a hand and releases it. It drops imertly. He's dead. His worries are...

Mlle. Consoli does a bunch of jetes, surrounded by other ballerinas. Then they surround her, and when she next appears, she is standing en point on a...

Stage set with painted backdrop of ocean & pier. Two women in bathing suits with broom, one catches & other swings. They argue with man in bathing sui...

This maid breaks the dishes, so it's off to the employment office. The next one tries on her mistress's clothes and gets kissed by the master, so it's...

A family living in poverty, in a tiny house with no furniture. When mama goes to sleep, the youngsters head out to rustle up some firewood. Apparently...

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 hunter with his leg stuck in a wolf trap sends his young son for help – unfortunately the boy is easily distracted and loses track of his mission.

Comedy ensues when two men accidentally swap hats at the barber's. After discovering the mix-up, the first man to leave returns to the shop to correct...

Butterfly chase.

Farther west on the Ulster and Delaware track, our camera locomotive overtakes a U. & D. Switcher rocking and rolling along. Perhaps filmed on the sam...

The view from the pilot of an Ulster and Delaware locomotive pulling out of Kingston Union Station through Kingston, NY, in 1906.