Most Viewed Year 1906

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

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...

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)...

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...

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

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

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

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

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and...

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their...

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

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...

A scientist concocts a potion that can turn people invisible for short periods of time. Two crooks steal the potion and go on a crime spree.

Dance from the opera from 1762 by Christoph Willibad Gluck (1714-1787), choreography by Hans Beck 1896. Performed by Valborg Borchsenius (née...

A story of fisherman's life in the north and how they get trapped at sea.

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...

The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.