Movies 1904

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.

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

1904 journalistic actuality.

An abridged story of the triumphs and trials of Christopher Columbus, told in eight scenes.

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

A tramp gets involved in mischief on a train.

Arrival of the management and staff of the Koninklijk Nederlands Circus Oscar Carré at Amsterdam’s Weesperpoort Station. The train arrives on the...

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...

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

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

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

Frenchman Count Hardup advertises for a wife. He gets more than he bargained for when women start chasing him. He's caught by an old maid.

Silent black and white film from Argentina made in 1904.

The stages that a caterpillar goes through, from larvae to chrysalis, to become a butterfly.

The 1904–1905 Pathé short Un coup d’œil par étage (literally “A Glance on Each Floor”) is an inventive early comedy that presents a...

A charming example of the Pathe stencil system of colour films, also using superimposition.

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

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

A singing "baby" backed by a chorus line of fellow "babies".

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

A tramp gets involved in mischief on a train.

Frenchman Count Hardup advertises for a wife. He gets more than he bargained for when women start chasing him. He's caught by an old maid.

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

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

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

A couple perform a acrobatic dance.

Attending trotting matches - in which horses in harness race at specific gaits - was a popular Edwardian pastime.

Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro...

An artist is painting a sunrise at sea. After a few finishing touches he stands back and admires the painting. The sun immediately commences to rise....

A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a...

A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to support his wife and ailing daughter.

A prefect is converted to Christianity and dies in the arena with his lover.

A realistic representation of the bombardment of Port Arthur by the Japanese. The great iron clad monsters of the deep are seen to glide in and out...

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

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

A high board fence is shown covered with theatrical posters. The one in the center shows the head and shoulders of a pretty girl. An old farmer and...

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...

Shows a band of mischievous cowboys being chased by Indians. A number of shots are fired at the pursuing Indians by the cow punchers, and the...

An Englishman travel's abroad

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