The best movies 1906 Pagina 3

A story of a desperate wife who worries about her husband, a career wrestler.

In all likeliness an inspiration for Griffith's The Lonely Villa (1909), Terrible Anguish tells the brief and tragic tale of a family being torn...

An old general is married to a young woman. She meets a young man and makes plans for a rendezvous. The general receives an anonymous letter about...

This exciting and somewhat dangerous sport has attained a popularity at all the Swiss winter resorts that is really remarkable. The film depicts in a...

Jeux olympiques d’Athènes depicts events at the 1906 Athens Olympics (or Intercalated Games), the first of the Games known to be filmed.

An old man, bell ringer at Notre Dame de Paris, disowns his daughter who has an affair with a young frivolous gentleman.

A young peasant leaves his cottage after a quarrel with his wife, and meets a witch. She takes him to a cavern, where after a series of encounters...

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.

Sheep bound through a narrow opening, followed by a panoramic vista of the flock running through a meadow.

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

Herring fishing in Bohuslän, Sweden, as caught on camera in January 1906.

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

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...

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

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

Spirited Ukrainian trepak dance, performed by Russian soloist Wania Tartakoff. (Stumfilm.DK)

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

One of the earliest Mexican feature-length documentary

The coronation of King Håkon (Haakon VII) of Norway in 1905.