Category:1906, Top Films

1902 -- 1903 -- 1904 -- 1905

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1907 -- 1908 -- 1909 -- 1910 --

Notable Mention

-- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (McCutcheon, Porter) -- * The Hilarious Posters [Les affiches en goguette] (Melies) -- The Merry Frolics of Satan [Les quatre cent Farces du diable] (Melies) -- The House of Ghosts [La maison ensorcelee] (Chomon) (listed in 1908)

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

Additional 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?

{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.

{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} [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

History of Cinema, Best Films

-- ** La vie du Christ (Guy-Blache) -- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (McCutcheon, Porter) -- * The Hilarious Posters [Les affiches en goguette] (Melies) -- The Merry Frolics of Satan [Les quatre cent Farces du diable] (Melies) -- The House of Ghosts [La maison ensorcelee] (Chomon) (listed in 1908)

-- [The] Story of the Kelly Gang (AUS 1906 Tait) -- Life of a Cowboy (Porter) -- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (Blackton) -- Ah? La barbe (Chomon) -- The '?' Motorist (Booth) -- Les roses magiques (Chomon) -- Le trobadour (Chomon)

Letterboxd, Best Films (3)

-- #1. A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire -- #2. The Merry Frolics of Satan [Les quatre cent Farces du diable] (Melies) -- #3. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (McCutcheon, Porter) ++ <The Bewitched House [La maison ensorcelee] (Chomon) (listed in 1907)>