Most Viewed Year 1906 - 16

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

A hunter with his leg stuck in a wolf trap sends his young son for help – unfortunately the boy is easily distracted and loses track of his...

A father forbids his daughter to marry her fiance and orders him out of the house, so the fiance arranges for the couple to elope--and with angry dad...

Depicts the chaos at a circus following an ape’s untimely escape.

Comedy ensues when two men accidentally swap hats at the barber's. After discovering the mix-up, the first man to leave returns to the shop to...

Butterfly chase.

Farther west on the Ulster and Delaware track, our camera locomotive overtakes a U. & D. Switcher rocking and rolling along. Perhaps filmed on the...

Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's visit to La Albufera (Valencia).

A hunter buys a hare at a butcher's shop. He falls asleep in a train compartment. A woman riding with him wants to take the hare so she undresses him.

A farmer disowns his son when the boy gets a girl pregnant, but his heart softens when he sees his grandchild.

There are a lot of circular pans in this very long (for 1906) travelogue showing the waterfroot of Lucerne, followed by a long moving shot (taken...

A Poacher on the loose.

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

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

Shows how they cut the wool off of sheep.

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.

The title reads "Hailing Drags". You'd expect some sort of travois affair, but it turns out to be mules hailing sugar cane loaded onto wheeled flats....

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

Two soldiers appear at a private house and demand lodging.

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...