साल 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 established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular hallucinatory dreams.

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

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) symbolizes both the birth of the Australian film industry and the emergence of an Australian cinema identity. Even more significantly, it heralds the emergence of the feature film format. However, only fragments of the original production of more than one hour are known to exist, preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; Efforts at reconstruction have made the film available to modern audiences.

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

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 takes one of them down to Hell and roasts him on a spit.

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

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 included. We see fire raging. We see burned-out buildings, piles of rubble, and buildings with only one wall standing. People stand and watch; others walk purposely through the debris. A carriage passes; the camera pans the desolation. A horse-drawn cart is laden with a family's remaining possessions. A sign hangs outside one building: "A little disfigured but still in business. Men Wanted."

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and saves the beautiful princess.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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

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.

Child prank causes chase for few ballons and one lady's wig

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

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin must regain the lamp or lose everything.

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

Panorama, Notorius 'Barbary Coast' after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

Highlights of the Athens 1906 Olympic Games.