Most Viewed Year 1906 - 16

A championship fight that took place in the Nevada goldfields between boxers Joe Gans and Battling Nelson.

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

A short clip showing Holger Drachmann.

A housewife is particularly determined to get her cooking knife sharpened by a travelling grinder, terrifying her neighbors and assorted pedestrians...

Shows how they cut the wool off of sheep.

A family scene: father, mother, daughter and a baby in the crub. A doctor is visiting. The family is upset. In the next scene, everyone wears black,...

A man collapses while drinking a cup of coffee. His wife and their servant raise a hand and releases it. It drops imertly. He's dead. His worries are...

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

Julot goes out into society for the first time. He is in his sunday best, but looks ridiculous. After many mistakes and faux-pas he is chased out by...

A tramp steals food from a picnicking professor and is blown up.

Pitou get some leave, so he goes to see his girlfriend, the cook at a house. When her other boyfriend comes in, she makes Pitou hide in the coal...

Vertical panorama City Hall and surroundings after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Document of a 1906 prize-fight.

This Lubin actuality of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake begins with a group of men, pans to the left, and the people vanish, leaving...

Earliy short film with mischievous kids.

A film by the Edison Company showing the devastation of the April 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

A beautiful young girl spontaneously grows flowers outside her window, with the help of a magic watering can.

A photographer welcomes a theather actress into his studio for a glamor shoot.

The coronation of King Håkon (Haakon VII) of Norway in 1905.