Most Viewed Year 1906 - 4

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

A criminal gang descends into the sewers of Paris and uses an interior exit to get their hands on a safe. They move it out of town, where they work...

The parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a...

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

“A melodrama of infidelity and violence set in Venice. An old beggar discovers a noble woman's clandestine affair and exposes the couple to the...

A drunk man is going to buy more drink at his wife's expense, which he takes advantage of to get more drunk.

Vera, daughter of a Cossack loves a young tartar who is the enemy of her father. She betrays her father to save the life of her lover, but loses her...

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...

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...

"Alice Guy-Blaché liked Feuillade's scripts, and one of them, Le coup de vent, was filmed by Etienne Armaud in 1905. Two years later, Alice...

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper...

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)...

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

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

In 1906, the Arlberg Railway, which connects the Austrian cities of Innsbruck and Bludenz, is the only east-west mountain railway in Austria. This...

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an...

A writer of tawdry fiction falls asleep at his desk and dreams of a romantic rivalry-- One likely as familiar to film fans then as it is now-- But...