25 February 1906 Fantasy, Comedy 10 mins
Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the court. Then he wakes up, and it turns out that he's an ordinary chimney sweep.
Watch the official Jack the Chimney Sweep 1906 trailer in HD below.
The Chimney Sweep Trailer
France 25 February 1906
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1906:
06 July 1906
The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.
17 January 1906
This Walter G. Chase film about epileptic seizures was photographed from a single camera position against a backdrop of dark canvas.
16 November 1906
This one-reel documentary is pretty much what it says in the title. Cavalrymen ride their horses, first over low hedges, then over increasingly rough terrain, until by the end they are sliding down hills to cross a stream and going into caves.
06 September 1906
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 only the shattered landscape.
15 February 1906
The short clip shows a spiritualist séance featuring a medium and two ‘spirits’, shot in Peter Elfelt’s studio.
19 August 1906
Shows how they cut the wool off of sheep.
18 May 1906
This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake.
21 December 1906
The activities of a recently opened amusement park in Havana, Cuba, similar to New York's Coney Island.
19 August 1906
Shepherds in Hawaii push a flock of sheep in line through a trough of water.
23 October 1906
The Anarchist's Mother-in-Law premiered on October 23, 1906. It featured director Viggo Larsen as the anarchist and Margrethe Jespersen as his wife.
06 September 1906
Despite the lurid title, no one gets shot in this long actuality from Lubin. Instead, it's another panorama, as indicated in the movie's alternative title, of the devastation wrought on San Francisco by the Earthquake and subsequent fire.
09 April 1906
A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.
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