1906 Movies

Biograph's reconstitution of the 1905 eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's visit to La Albufera (Valencia).

A rich man receives money and loses his wallet in a park. He finds her a tramp who begins to spend all the money with no sense, to lose everything.

A slave dealer exhibits his wares to a wealthy guy in a turban.... and by that I mean he is showing off women by stripping their clothes from them.

A hunter buys a hare at a butcher's shop. He falls asleep in a train compartment. A woman riding with him wants to take the hare so she undresses him.

Following an argument, the wife returns to her mother. The mother-in-law tries to make them divorce, but they reconcile in the end.

When his wife gives to the ragman a pair of tan trousers in which all his money is kept, a man proceeds to rip the trousers off everyone he meets.

A camera starts on a sloppy scene: people walking around, a building that's seen better days, palm trees, with fronds waving in the breeze. As the cam...

This film is made up of five panoramas, four wide and one close-up, of the ruins of downtown San Francisco shortly after the 1906 disaster, plus a pan...

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

Shows how they cut the wool off of sheep.

The title reads "Hailing Drags". You'd expect some sort of travois affair, but it turns out to be mules hailing sugar cane loaded onto wheeled flats....

Earliy short film with mischievous kids.

A notary's clerk and the cleaning woman play a trick on their employer. This earns the clerk a box on the ears. They up the stakes by writing letters...

Document of a 1906 prize-fight.

This Walter G. Chase film about epileptic seizures was photographed from a single camera position against a backdrop of dark canvas.

Kong Frederik VIII of Denmark vists Kristiania (aka Oslo) in 1906.