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 with the same scientific curiosity of people observing the old woman who swallowed a fly; we don't know why either started the whole process.
Watch the official Travels of a Barrel 1906 trailer in HD below.
Travels of a Barrel Trailer
France 05 October 1906
United States 24 November 1906
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1906:
06 March 1906
A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.
06 September 1906
A camera starts on a sloppy scene: people walking around, a building that's seen better days, palm trees, with fronds waving in the breeze.
31 December 1906
Depicts the exit of the President of the Republic Tomás Estrada Palma from the Presidential Palace, after giving the government to the Secretary of War of the United States, William H.
16 October 1906
Short silent film about the difficulty caused by these dresses in getting out of the car without offending the modesty of passers-by.
22 May 1906
Three young women are smiling and playing in a lake, their nude bodies reflecting in the water, when a forest watcher appears from the wood, and chases them away.
31 October 1906
A poor boy is mistreated by his stepmother when his father isn't present.
21 December 1906
The activities of a recently opened amusement park in Havana, Cuba, similar to New York's Coney Island.
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 December 1906
After the San Francisco Earthquake knocked the city out, and the fires did more damage, many of the refugees from the devastated area settled in a tent city in Jefferson Square.
19 August 1906
Shows how they cut the wool off of sheep.
08 October 1906
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1906 Pathé Frères.
