The best movies 1906 Pagina 7

Lost short film

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

French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

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

Haakon becomes King of Norway.

TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, there are...

A farmer's son, family facing foreclosure, goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins big, he goes back to the country and...

Herring fishing in Bohuslän, Sweden, as caught on camera in January 1906.

The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various...

Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria...

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

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.

A horse fetches help when tramps attack its master.

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

Christian IX (b. 1818) died 29 January 1906. He was king of Denmark for 42 years. With his many family ties to the royal houses of Europe, he was...

A lost boy wandering through the city discovers counterfeiters operating in a cellar. He alerts the police, helps bring about their arrest, and is...

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

While a balloon merchant sleeps on a river bank, a group of children steal his balloons and attach them to the hat of an old lady. Her hat and wig...

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

At the racetrack.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.