Tausaga 1906

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

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

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

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

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

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 pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

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 wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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.

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

A man gives away an inherited hat, then finds it contains a will.

A car crash blows a lady with a parasol onto a steeple. An inventor with an airship comes to the rescue.

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

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 seen through a telescope.

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

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.

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

The parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a statue of baby Jesus. The miracle, then, is that the faithful's prayers are answered by the appearance of angels and the Virgin Mary, who present them with a statue.