1904 Movies

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes...

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

Facing a stationary camera, sitting at a desk, a man works busily. Posters of burlesque queens are on the wall behind him. A single woman, followed...

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...

The adventures of an inattentive man who can't look away from his book.

Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hips. Marshall continues with various feminine...

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping...

An actuality of the Brock's fireworks factory to celebrate its 40th anniversary organizes. The final shot has two flaming portraits of King Edward...

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father...

A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into...

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

A magic show.

A turbine is shown operating.

Facing a stationary camera, sitting at a desk, a man works busily. Posters of burlesque queens are on the wall behind him. A single woman, followed...

A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...

The adventures of an inattentive man who can't look away from his book.

Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hips. Marshall continues with various feminine...

A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into...

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

A turbine is shown operating.

A large bucket full of molten material is poured into a large container, possibly a mold, by a group of men using machinery. Some other men stoke the...

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman...

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by...

A remake of Edwin S. Porter's film of the same title.

This short, otherwise unremarkable feature is of some interest because of the way that it unabashedly caters to the tastes that it perceived in its...

Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been...

People doing the Cake Walk dance on the Beach at Coney Island.

This is a single camera position film of muscle-flexing exercises by a professional physical culturist. The expansion, contraction, and flexing of...

What appear to be molds pass some men by on conveyor belts. The men take them off the belt and dump the contents onto the ground. Other men pick up...

An over-the-hill American tourist has a terrible time on his European "rest cure" vacation.

A woman stands in front of a building, a chair to her left, dressed in black, full skirt, quarter sleeves, and a scooped bodice. Her hair is piled...