Most Viewed Year 1906 - 13

A child and her nurse are out walking. A band of desperate men and women knock the nurse down and abduct the child. Soon a ransom note is sent to the...

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...

Riders at a cavalry school take the horses through their paces, jumping over fences and walls, descending steep slopes, and fording streams. Some...

Leaving for town, a peasant comes upon a witch who puts him under her spell. Neither the jeers of his companions or the supplications of his young...

When his wife gives to the ragman a pair of tan trousers in which all his money is kept, a man proceeds to rip the trousers off everyone he meets.

During a raid, a police officer is shot, and a woman is mistakenly arrested for the crime. Despite the pleas of her mother, she is sentenced to...

A man plays with three young women at the beach while his wife is alseep.

Despite the lurid title, no one gets shot in this long actuality from Lubin. Instead, it's another panorama, as indicated in the movie's alternative...

A camera starts on a sloppy scene: people walking around, a building that's seen better days, palm trees, with fronds waving in the breeze. As the...

A huge throng of spectators watches a car race.

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

Catalogue in "The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company," by Anthony Slide & Alan Gevinson, 1987.

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

A soldier steals his officer's money and asks the music-hall singer he is mad about to run awy with him.

The ramshackle-looking train on the single-track line pulls into the station, just in front of the siding. People clumb down and go on their ways.

A view of Waikiki in 1906.

A static shot of crowded trams returning people from an unknown sporting event.

When his woman walks out on him, the clown suffers from hallucinations, imagining various people and situations in his misery.

This is the oldest preserved film recorded in Iceland. It shows from a firefighting exercise that took place in Reykjavík in 1906.

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,...