The best movies 1906 Pagina 7

In a chase which literally encompasses the entire globe, a detective follows the path of an apparent embezzler through various foreign nations,...

Alexander Shiryaev created “The Fool’s Dance” in Marius Petipa’s 1896 revival of the ballet “Mlada”, with music...

The head of the family, in search of money, dons the clothes left by the village priest. He commits a terrible deed, and later, the priest learns of...

The film starts with a lovely long shot of the Artist at work in a dappled glade, where he first meets the Miner's Daughter. The Artist asks the...

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...

1906 comedy film by Edwin S. Porter, based on a popular song of the same title.

A fat man has lost his glasses and runs into all types of problems trying to find them.

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

The short clip shows a spiritualist séance featuring a medium and two ‘spirits’, shot in Peter Elfelt’s studio. Dr Faustinus...

A story of a desperate wife who worries about her husband, a career wrestler.

A young man is hired as a guard for an insane asylum. Immediately the inmates start harassing him and he flees. The inmates give chase and they...

On a winter evening, a poor peasant woman waited for her husband, who had gone to gather firewood in the forest. He finally arrived. The man and...

A view of King Street in Hawaii.

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...

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...

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

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...

View of the Lerfossen near Trondhjem.

"Mireille" was filmed at the end of May, 1906, by a small team including Alice Guy, Herbert Blaché, Louis Feuillade and Yvonne Mugnier-Serand...