The best movies 1906 Pagina 8

Dance from the Opera ‘Il Trovatore’ (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Choreography by August Bournonville, 1865. Performed by Valborg...

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...

Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea" for Alice Guy.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The film was taken the 27th of May, 1906 during the Gran Corrida organized by the Press Association of Nîmes. Although lost, it should not be...

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...

A criminal gang descends into the sewers of Paris and uses an interior exit to get their hands on a safe. They move it out of town, where they work...

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...

Ballet by August Bournonville 1871. With Hans Beck, Valborg Borchsenius (née Guldbrandsen) and Ellen Price. (Stumfilm.DK)

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

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 the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of...

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...

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

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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...

Lost short film

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

At the beginning of the film, a group of men can be seen gathered around a flat area near a large municipal gas tank. Most of the group are attending...

People traveling by horse carriage to a party.

Video photage of a military maneuver in Östergötland, Sweden.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.