Most Viewed Year 1906

"Mireille" was filmed at the end of May, 1906, by a small team including Alice Guy, Herbert Blaché, Louis Feuillade and Yvonne Mugnier-Serand...

Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...

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

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

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

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of...

Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea" for Alice Guy.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

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

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)...

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

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...

Two statues come to live and start to sing.

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

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

King Haakon and Queen Maud in Trondhjem.