All Films

Two Clowns

1906 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short.

A Native Street in India

1906 • 2 min • United Kingdom

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

A New Hat for the Madam

1906 • 6 min • Denmark

A young woman is out shopping and buys a new hat in the latest fashion. Unfortunately, the hat is so huge that it leaves a trail of destruction wherever she goes. A quite ordinary stroll suddenly becomes deeply problematic.

From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies

1906 • 8 min • United States of America

A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by handcar. From there, they hijack a horsecart on a road running parallel to the tracks. Will justice prevail in the end?

Attempted Suicide

1906 • 7 min • France

Suffering from unrequited love, Max hangs himself from a tree, and ends up hanging for hours while local townspeople squabble over whose responsibility it is to rescue him.

Tit-for-Tat

1906 • 5 min • France

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

The Riderless Bicycle

1906 • 3 min • France

Short film showcasing a circus clown act.

How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game

1906 • 5 min • United States of America

An office boy plays hooky from work so he can watch a ballgame perched high atop a telephone pole. Includes footage of an actual baseball game as if seen through a telescope.

The 100 to One Shot; or, A Run of Luck

1906 • 9 min • United States of America

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 prevents the landlord from evicting his parents.

Logging in Maine

1906 • 18 min • United States of America

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 operations necessary to prevent logs from jamming together. The men keep them headed with the flow of the water toward the lake on which the mill is located. The activities of approximately a dozen men were photographed.

The Law of Forgiveness

1906 • 8 min • France

The Bell Ringer's Daughter

1906 • 10 min • France

An old man, bell ringer at Notre Dame de Paris, disowns his daughter who has an affair with a young frivolous gentleman.

Is Spiritualism a Fraud? – The Medium Exposed

1906 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

Olympic Games in Athens

1906 • 6 min • France

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

The Drunken Mattress

1906 • 9 min • France

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

Bobby and His Family

1906 • 2 min • France

A clown creates a giant version of his face, and then retrieves two miniature versions of himself from his luggage.

The Maids' Strike

1906 • 7 min • France

An army of kitchen maids go on strike and take down all the men who come in their path.

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire

1906 • 12 min • United States of America

A Trip Down Market Street is a 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it travels down San Francisco’s Market Street. A virtual time capsule from over 100 years ago, the film shows many details of daily life in a major American city, including the transportation, fashions and architecture of the era. The film begins at 8th Street and continues eastward to the cable car turntable, at The Embarcadero, in front of the San Francisco Ferry Building. It was produced by the four Miles brothers: Harry, Herbert, Earle and Joe. Harry J. Miles cranked the Bell & Howell camera during the filming.

The Hilarious Posters

1906 • 3 min • France

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

Athens 1896

1906 • 1 min • Greece

Although the title proclaims this to be Athens 1896, the first Olympic Games of the modern era, this film is almost certainly of the so-called Intercalated Games of 1906 - the event captured is the standing high jump, which did not feature in the 1896 Games. The interim competition was held at a time when Athens and the International Olympic Committee were at odds over the decision to hold the Games in different cities of the world.

Robert Macaire and Bertrand

1906 • 11 min • France

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of the archetypal villain.

Soap Bubbles

1906 • 4 min • France

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

Punch and Judy

1906 • 1 min • France

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

The Tramp and the Mattress Makers

1906 • 4 min • France

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.