Cinematic Era: 1906 Vintage

Shepherds in Hawaii push a flock of sheep in line through a trough of water.

There's no harbor, and the ship lies some distance off shore..... then the camera pans and a tender has to be sent out amidst the rough water.

A bunch of men on horseback gallop past people near a shack in this short shot by Robert K.Bonine.

Earliy short film with mischievous kids.

A wife has a vision of her miner husband being killed at the site of his claim. She finds the murderer, now living in luxury, and exacts revenge.

As soon as he wakes up, the unfortunate debtor is assailed by a crowd of creditors who, bill in hand, throw themselves on the unfortunate man. Pursued by the delirious pack, the debtor slips away and then, grabbing a broom, faces the pursuers on the doorstep where each of them is conscientiously beaten.

A family living in poverty, in a tiny house with no furniture. When mama goes to sleep, the youngsters head out to rustle up some firewood. Apparently that's illegal, so some forest rangers seize them and the wood to bring to a well-dressed man.

While a pretty girl chats with the customs-agents, smugglers try to sneak across the border.

Two trains have a head on collision.

Stage set with painted backdrop of ocean & pier. Two women in bathing suits with broom, one catches & other swings. They argue with man in bathing suit who is refereeing & then fight with him. One woman holds him and other beats him with broom. He then picks one woman up and they all fall down.

In 1906 a cameraman boarded a streetcar in Boston and rode around the city, wherever that vehicle took him. The film is exceptional, because it shows Boston's public buildings, its squares and subway construction, as well as the large public library.

Panorama, Notorius 'Barbary Coast' after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Panorama, Ruins Aristocratic Apartments after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Shows Chinatown in ruins after the 1906 earthquake.

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

A mattress maker briefly leaves the mattress she's mending. A drunkard leaving the café sits down on it. The woman returns and finishes her work. Then, after numerous mishaps, the mattress is delivered. Finally, it's placed in a bedroom. Shortly after, a newlywed couple arrives. But at the crucial moment, the man emerges from the mattress, disheveled, much to the bride's alarm.

Document of a 1906 prize-fight.

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

The activities of a recently opened amusement park in Havana, Cuba, similar to New York's Coney Island.

A fat man has lost his glasses and runs into all types of problems trying to find them.

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

A man gives away an inherited hat, then finds it contains a will.

Haakon becomes King of Norway.

A short clip showing Holger Drachmann.

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 to the skin of a big balloon in the foreground near the camera. The remainder of the film shows the balloon being filled with gas until it is buoyant enough to become airborne, the mounting of the suspended basket, the release of the balloon, and the actual flight. The balloon was the Centaur.

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

A troop of soldiers on horseback enter San Francisco with relief supplies following the earthquake that year.

Newsreel covering the visit of Sweden’s King Oscar II in the city of Kristianstad in September 1906.

Newsreel covering the funeral of the Danish king Christan IX in Roskilde, Denmark, on February 16th, 1906.

Indian Freedom Fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak bathes in the river Ganges. One of the first moving images captured in India. The beginning of Indian documentary filmmaking.

When New Zealand’s longest-serving prime minister, Richard John Seddon, suddenly took ill and died during his voyage home from a diplomatic trip to Australia, the country went into mourning. A national hero, Seddon had presided over New Zealand’s decision not to join the Australian Federation in 1901, was responsible for the institution of old-age pensions, and was a champion of miners and the native Maori people. Thousands lined the streets of Wellington for his funeral cortège on 21 June 1906. Led by a brass band playing a specially composed funeral march, the horse-drawn carriage was followed by Seddon’s family, along with various dignitaries and government officials, as it made its way through the capital to St. Paul’s Cathedral.

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

Farther west on the Ulster and Delaware track, our camera locomotive overtakes a U. & D. Switcher rocking and rolling along. Perhaps filmed on the same trip that yielded Biograph's West Shore Local (1906).

The view from the pilot of an Ulster and Delaware locomotive pulling out of Kingston Union Station through Kingston, NY, in 1906.

A sequel to the last film from 1900, a single one-act “talkie” sound on-disk film produced by the Royal Bioscope

A rich man receives money and loses his wallet in a park. He finds her a tramp who begins to spend all the money with no sense, to lose everything.

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 bin/garbage can, with the typical results for a slapstick comedy.

Called away by a telegram, Ducornard leaves his wife alone in the house. She isn't alone for long since she is soon joined by her lover.

This maid breaks the dishes, so it's off to the employment office. The next one tries on her mistress's clothes and gets kissed by the master, so it's back to the employment agency. The third...

The Tsarist police penetrate a imprimerie clandestine. The sister of one is Nadia. She gets sent to Siberia and her brother makes a bomb for vengeance and throws it into a soiree at the governor's.

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

A boy named Willie "snaps everything in sight" with his new camera. His targets included: Family members (Ma, Pa, Grandma, Grandpa), family pets (the cat, the old horse, and a St. Bernard), the "scandalous" image of a young man kissing Willie's sister and the Parson and "Miss Old Maid" at a Sunday School picnic.

A bunch of people traveling by foot or on horseback past the camera in Hawaii.

The documentary features the oldest footage ever taken of surfing, and it was shot in Hawaii by Robert Bonine.

Lost short film

Lost phonoscène film, attributed to Louis Feulliade.

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 over. His suffering wife, however, must go through the wearying routine of dealing with his death alone.

A notary's clerk and the cleaning woman play a trick on their employer. This earns the clerk a box on the ears. They up the stakes by writing letters that bring every hunchback, cripple and slob crowding into the office.

Smugglers land their goods. Customs inspectors spot them and take off in pursuit.

A short documentary based on Wilhelm Voigt.

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.

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.