The best movies 1906 Pagina 8

This one-reel documentary is pretty much what it says in the title. Cavalrymen ride their horses, first over low hedges, then over increasingly rough...

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

A short comedy about a park bench with a Love's Thermometer on it.

It was traditional for picture house screenings to begin with a short welcoming sketch, this one featured Lydia De Robertis writing Good Evening on a...

TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, in Panama...

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

Lost film version of a novel (or scenes from a novel) written by Paul Siraudin.

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

An office boy plays hooky from work so he can watch a ballgame perched high atop a telephone pole. Includes footage of an actual baseball game as if...

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...

The proclamation was performed on 30 January 1906 by Prime Minister Jens Christian Christensen (1856-1930). At age 63, Frederik finally became king....

The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Trondhjem, Norway.

Haakon becomes King of Norway.

Long winded film runs just over six-minutes but we're pretty much shown Iceland's Parliament as they board a ship and are given a reception by the...

A great variety of the Swiss snow sports are here shown. Commencing with toboganning round a steep circular descent, and next in increasing numbers...

An army of kitchen maids go on strike and take down all the men who come in their path.

The candidate at home to callers. Double bribery. An interrupted meeting. the rival bill-stickers. A small coin makes a big row. Nursing baby, and...

An elevated moving view along George Street in Sydney, recording the traffic, trams, pedestrians and commercial life of one of the city’s main...

A farmer's son, family facing foreclosure, goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins big, he goes back to the country and...

A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short.

On a winter evening, a poor peasant woman waited for her husband, who had gone to gather firewood in the forest. He finally arrived. The man and...

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...