All Films

Trial Marriages

1907 • 12 min • United States of America

A man attempts a series of 'trial marriages' with various women, and eventually gives up on marriage altogether.

Cinderella

1907 • 15 min • France

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

Human Apes from the Orient

1906 • 3 min • United States of America

The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the bidding of a man in oriental costume. The point of the film seems to be directed at the fact that the bone structure of the two subjects makes them look like monkeys or apes, and the spectators seem to be trying to get them to behave like monkeys, that is, scratch themselves, etc.

Wales v. Ireland at Wrexham

1906 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

The Icelandic Althing Visits Copenhagen

1906 • 6 min • Denmark

Long winded film runs just over six-minutes but we're pretty much shown Iceland's Parliament as they board a ship and are given a reception by the Danish crown.

I Fetch the Bread

1906 • 5 min • France

A family sends a man out for some bread. Instead, he seems to be trying to find every drink in Paris. Another man goes out after him, but does the same. They both return, utterly drunk.

King Frederik VIII's Proclamation

1906 • 3 min

The proclamation was performed on 30 January 1906 by Prime Minister Jens Christian Christensen (1856-1930). At age 63, Frederik finally became king. He had been standing in the shadow of his father, who did not want any interference by his curious and hard working son. -Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)

King Edward VII Launches HMS Dreadnought from Portsmouth Dockyard

1906 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

Passionate Drama

1906 • 7 min • France

A man and a woman meet in a park in Paris and fall in love with each other. Four years later, they have a daughter, but the man is bored and decides to break. He disappears, but the woman finds by chance that he is about to marry for money. She prepares to get revenge.

Vienna by Tram

1906 • 4 min • France

A tram ride through Vienna. Actuality of Pathe Freres.

An Indian Washing the Baby

1906 • 2 min • India, United Kingdom

Two Indian women wash a baby with a jug of water, while a man with a turban sits behind them.

Firefighting Exercise

1906 • 2 min

This is the oldest preserved film recorded in Iceland. It shows from a firefighting exercise that took place in Reykjavík in 1906.

Le nihiliste

1906 • 9 min • France

During a raid, a police officer is shot, and a woman is mistakenly arrested for the crime. Despite the pleas of her mother, she is sentenced to Siberia, but she dies along the way. Her mother decides to take revenge.

La scuola di cavalleria Tor di Quinto

1906 • 11 min • Italy

Riders at a cavalry school take the horses through their paces, jumping over fences and walls, descending steep slopes, and fording streams. Some horses balk, and riders occasionally fall off their steeds.

Desperate Girl

1906 • 10 min • France

A farmer disowns his son when the boy gets a girl pregnant, but his heart softens when he sees his grandchild.

Un viaggio in una stella

1906 • 11 min • France, Italy

An old astronomer named Nigadimus has been transfixed by a star for a long time. He had but one thought: to travel to it, to declare his love for it! But how? A simple but ingenious solution-- A giant bubble. An Italian production, this is Velle's longer version of his own film for Pathé, released the same year-- On the same date. Uses many of the same sets, but different props, as well as a different ending.

Parade des sultans

1906 • 1 min • France

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.

Automobile Fête Before King Alfonso and Princess Ena

1906 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Automobile rally mounted as part of the wedding festivities of the Spanish King Alfonso and Princess Eva.

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

1906 • 1 min • United States of America

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

Olympic Games at Athens

1906 • 6 min • United Kingdom

This early film offers a snapshot of what became known as the Interim (or Intercalated) Games of 1906. Having hosted the first modern Games in 1896, Athens felt that it should be the permanent venue, but the International Olympic Committee disagreed, wanting the event held in different cities around the world. The compromise was this separate event, to be held in Athens between the official Games every four years.

A Trip Through Vienna

1906 • 3 min • Austria

A trip through Vienna on a tram.

San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906

1906 • 14 min • United States of America

Film showing the results of an earthquake in San Francisco on 18th April 1906 which caused great destruction.

The Good Judge

1906 • 3 min • France

A family living in poverty, in a tiny house with no furniture. When mama goes to sleep, the youngsters head out to rustle up some firewood. Apparently that's illegal, so some forest rangers seize them and the wood to bring to a well-dressed man.

Frau Holle

1906 • 10 min

A short film of the tale of Mother Holly.