1906 Movies

An aria from Daniel Auber's comic opera on phonograph accompanies the images on screen.

Puppets representing Pierrot and Harlequin acting with a ball. Stop-motion animated short films produced sometime between 1906-1909.

Jeux olympiques d’Athènes depicts events at the 1906 Athens Olympics (or Intercalated Games),the first of the Games known to be filmed.

A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the d...

Alexander Shiryaev created “The Fool’s Dance” in Marius Petipa’s 1896 revival of the ballet “Mlada”, with music by Ludwig Minkus, at the Mariinsky Th...

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 sav...

Boy tricks his father into drinking castor oil. The latter is obliged to defecate in a series of unlikely places, to the evident disgust of members of...

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

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.

Depicts the exit of the President of the Republic Tomás Estrada Palma from the Presidential Palace, after giving the government to the Secretary of Wa...

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 takes...

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

A short film about a dirigible.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

A car crash blows a lady with a parasol onto a steeple. An inventor with an airship comes to the rescue.

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the court....

A short documentary based on Wilhelm Voigt.

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

Suffering from unrequited love, Max hangs himself from a tree, and ends up hanging for hours while local townspeople squabble over whose responsibilit...

When New Zealand’s longest-serving prime minister, Richard John Seddon, suddenly took ill and died during his voyage home from a diplomatic trip to Au...