Las Mejores Películas De 1906

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

Early Biograph short on the results of marrying for financial gain.

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

In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is wearing a bright yellow dress. She's the second beauty. Behind h...

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

A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.

Un troubadour sin dinero consulta a la bruja Carabosse sobre su futuro, pero la ofende pagando con una bolsa de arena. Él evade la venganza de la bruja, y salva a la hermosa princesa.

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

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

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

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

An evil magician visits the rajah's palace to perform his magic tricks, but he also steals a valuable casket making his getaway aboard a dragon. The rajah pursues the wizard to a subterranean cavern.

A magical glowing white motorcar dismembers policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space and can transform into a horse and carriage. This was a British effort to top Méliès at his Sci-Fi...

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 takes one of them down to Hell and roasts him on a spit...

Story of a poor wife who worries about her husband.

A woman loses her only child and she goes nuts.

The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the street, hitting everything from lamp-posts to market stalls and baby carriages. An ever-increasing cro...

Self-styled pier entertainer 'Professor' Reddish was a specialist in the "flying the foam" stunt, which involved mounting a bicycle and riding it down a steep ramp and then off the end of Brighton's W...

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A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the court. Then he wakes up, and it turns out that he's an o...

A farmer facing foreclosure goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins he goes back to the country in an expensive car and prevents the landlord from evicting his parents.

A man and a woman meet in a park in Paris and fall in love with each other. Four years later, they have a daughter, but the man is bored and decides to break. He disappears, but the woman finds by cha...

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

A short film about a dirigible.

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one overpowers a guard and springs his three pals. But,...

Así como la metrópoli de Fritz Lang (1927) es testimonio del arte del cine mudo alemán, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) simboliza tanto el nacimiento de la industria cinematográfica australiana com...

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

Film showing the results of an earthquake in San Francisco on 18th April 1906 which caused great destruction.

Desde el punto de vista del frente de un tren, un grupo de ladrones en un coche de mano roban el tren y asesinan a uno de sus tripulantes.

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin ...

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out an...

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

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 children, the children throw snowballs at the riders, ...

Three young women are smiling and playing in a lake, their nude bodies reflecting in the water, when a forest watcher appears from the wood, and chases them away. They get out of the water, pick their...

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

A poor boy is mistreated by his mother when his father isn't looking.

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

The parish priest spends his Christmas spreading good will.

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

A new skyscraper is being built in New York City, and numerous workmen are busy at hazardous jobs high above the ground. When one of the workers, Dago Pete, deliberately starts a fight, he is immediat...

A beautiful seductive fairy makes gentle winged creatures appear.

Diving "tricks"

A magician performs a magic show involving women turning into bouquets of roses. Later the roses are festooned together in a fancy way to decorate the stage.