Most Viewed Year 1906 - 17

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

Document of a 1906 prize-fight.

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

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

This Walter G. Chase film about epileptic seizures was photographed from a single camera position against a backdrop of dark canvas.

This Walter G. Chase film about epileptic seizures was photographed from a single camera position against a backdrop of dark canvas.

This Walter G. Chase film about epileptic seizures was photographed from a single camera position against a backdrop of dark canvas.

In the beginning of the film, a streetcar passes in front of the camera position. The camera starts to move, indicating that it was on a streetcar...

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...

Scenes of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

At the beginning of the film, a group of men can be seen gathered around a flat area near a large municipal gas tank. Most of the group are attending...

In a Japanese garden, gather maidens with nets to catch butterflies, all in the joy of life and budding maidenhood; fresh Irish sweetness of blithe...