A ’mhòr-chuid a’ faicinn Bliadhna 1906 - 15

A drunk crawls into a barrel. Some boys push the barrel into the street, where it rolls hither and yon for five minutes of screen time, doubtless...

Called away by a telegram, Ducornard leaves his wife alone in the house. She isn't alone for long since she is soon joined by her lover.

Following an argument, the wife returns to her mother. The mother-in-law tries to make them divorce, but they reconcile in the end.

When his father dies, two brothers inherit his property but because of a woman who loves one of them, the other becomes jealous and enmity arises.

This maid breaks the dishes, so it's off to the employment office. The next one tries on her mistress's clothes and gets kissed by the master, so...

Riders at a cavalry school take the horses through their paces, jumping over fences and walls, descending steep slopes, and fording streams. Some...

Leaving for town, a peasant comes upon a witch who puts him under her spell. Neither the jeers of his companions or the supplications of his young...

A farmer disowns his son when the boy gets a girl pregnant, but his heart softens when he sees his grandchild.

When his wife gives to the ragman a pair of tan trousers in which all his money is kept, a man proceeds to rip the trousers off everyone he meets.

There are a lot of circular pans in this very long (for 1906) travelogue showing the waterfroot of Lucerne, followed by a long moving shot (taken...

During a raid, a police officer is shot, and a woman is mistakenly arrested for the crime. Despite the pleas of her mother, she is sentenced to...

A Poacher on the loose.

A man plays with three young women at the beach while his wife is alseep.

This Lubin actuality of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake begins with a group of men, pans to the left, and the people vanish, leaving...

A huge throng of spectators watches a car race.

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

This is, for 1906, a strikingly ambitious prototype-documentary travelogue filmed in and around the cities now called Kolkata and Mumbai. It's full...

Catalogue in "The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company," by Anthony Slide & Alan Gevinson, 1987.

This film is made up of five panoramas, four wide and one close-up, of the ruins of downtown San Francisco shortly after the 1906 disaster, plus a...

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.