ډیر لیدل شوی کال 1906

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

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...

Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria...

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)...

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

A young woman is out shopping and buys a new hat in the latest fashion. Unfortunately, the hat is so huge that it leaves a trail of destruction...

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...

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.

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

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.

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...

The Life of an American Cowboy is a Western short film.

A poor boy is mistreated by his stepmother when his father isn't present.

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...

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

Highlights of the Athens 1906 Olympic Games.

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

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...

"Mireille" was filmed at the end of May, 1906, by a small team including Alice Guy, Herbert Blaché, Louis Feuillade and Yvonne Mugnier-Serand...