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Notable 1906 films

• {en} [The] Black Hand (USA 1906 McCutcheon) <YouTube> -- Two members of a gang write a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding that he give them money, or else they will harm his family and his shop.

• {fr} [The] Consequences of Feminism / Les résultats du féminisme (FRA 1906 Guy) <YouTube> -- In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?

• {en} [The] Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (USA 1906 Porter) <YouTube> -- The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.

• {fr} [The] Game-Keeper's Son / Le fils du garde-chasse (FRA 1906 Guy) <short> <YouTube> -- A young boy tries to stop a few bad men from doing bad things in Alice Guy's silent short from 1906.

• {fr} [The] Hilarious Posters / Les Affiches en goguette (FRA 1906 Melies) <short> <YouTube> -- A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

• {en} [A] Modern Oliver Twist; or, The Life of a Pickpocket (USA 1906 Blackton) <short> <lost> -- An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

• {en} A Trip down Market Street before the Fire (1906) <YouTube> -- From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.

• {en} [The] Story of the Kelly Gang (AUS 1906 Tait) <YouTube> -- Originally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw

Critical Reception

Silent Era, Best Films

-- #196. The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

-- #300+. The Hilarious Posters

Paste Magazine, Best Films

-- #90. A Trip Down Market Street

External links

• 1906 in film -- Wikipedia