A balding man drinks a whole bottle of hair tonic. The unexpected surplus of hair promises a successful showbiz career for him and his wife.

An old astronomer has been transfixed by a star for a long time. He had but one thought: to travel to it, to declare his love for it! But how? A...

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...

This is, for 1906, a strikingly ambitious prototype-documentary travelogue filmed in and around the cities now called Kolkata and Mumbai. It's full...

A basket of flowers appears and moves by itself to the middle of a decorative arch. From the basket, a woman magician appears. From a cylinder, the...

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

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their...

A scientist concocts a potion that can turn people invisible for short periods of time. Two crooks steal the potion and go on a crime spree.

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

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 parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a...

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

A woman loses her only child. She turns to drink and begins to hallucinate an image of her beloved child.

A bunch of people run an obstacle course all around town.

The shift of the crown was paralleled by a new epoch of cinema in Denmark. Peter Elfelt had been the dominant figure in early Danish film. After some...

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film...

A look at typical activities taking place in the Peek Frean factory: First, the workers get up steam, as supplies of milk and flour arrive. Sheets of...

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...

This film tells the story of mésalliance. He is old and she's young. She takes a lover. He wants to get revenge.

An artist is painting the portrait of a young woman dressed in a country costume in his attic studio. The landlord demands the rent, but the artist...

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...

The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various...

Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper...

The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.

With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to...

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

17th of May celebrations in Norway.

Two tunnel workers are fighting over the wife of one, who's also involved with the other. Suddenly an explosion occurs. Instead of fighting, they...

A payroll clerk is framed by a man competing with him for the attentions of a mill girl.

People traveling by horse carriage to a party.

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

The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the...

A fisherman's dreams come through in sentcilcolor, featuring deep sea fairies, puppet seahorses, a bug-eyed octopus, and a colossal starfish. Zecca...

1906 film by Edwin S. Porter, based on a popular song of the same title.

The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Trondhjem, Norway.

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...

Two soldiers appear at a private house and demand lodging.

A British soldier is made prisoner by a Zulu, who tries to set fire on the Union Jack. A bulldog runs on the rescue terrorizing the Zulu. This allows...

A clown creates a giant version of his face, and then retrieves two miniature versions of himself from his luggage.