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 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 s...

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

The heir of a rich family puts up a notice, where he says he is looking for a wife. As a result, he will soon find himself fleeing from a dozen women.

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

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks fo...

A fire fighting demonstration in Luna Park, Coney Island. on August 15, 1904.

A fairly venturesome piece of filmmaking for the era: Based on the Jules Verne story, the film utilizes a dozen cuts, irised lenses, panning shots and...

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

A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.

Scene I of the Buster Brown Series. The opening scene shows Bridget asleep at the kitchen-table, and Buster enters on tip-toe. After tying her apron o...

A Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage and superimposing/project...

Klingsor seeks admission to the Holy Grail. Evil summons Kundry. Herzeloid appears with the child Parsifal. Crowning of Amfortas. Wounding of Amfortas...

The only known film footage of Marcel Proust (identified by Canadian professor Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan around 100 years after the shooting of the fi...

Two young girls in Ukrainian costume perform a dance near a palm tree in a garden.

A staged crash between two outmoded locomotives given to the Edison Co. by the Pennsylvania Railroad for the express purpose of destroying them.

The title of this early US film is something of a con really. Another rube couple had appeared in an entertaining movie set at Coney Island the previo...

The Lillywhites take on the Wolves at Deepdale, watched by a large crowd and the club mascot.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.