Movies 1904 Page 2

Silent black and white film from Argentina made in 1904.

"Danced at the Casino de Paris by the Elks and their Indian troop."

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

A couple perform a acrobatic dance.

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

Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.

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...

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...

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

A husband peeks as his new bride undresses herself.

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...

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 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...

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

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

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

The launch of the ship Regina Elena.

Several dogs copiously "water" a rose on a lawn. A young lover arrives, delicately picks the flower and offers it to his beloved.

An Englishman travel's abroad

A historical re-enactment of a naval battle in Chemulpo Bay off the coast of Korea during the Russo-Japanese war. Shows a Japanese ship damaging one...

With a tree-lined river bank dominating the top and back of the frame, the Charles River flows toward a stationary camera. A flotilla of canoes...

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...

As a mother enters a store, she leaves her child outside in a carriage. Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage....

Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

Powerboat racing was a brand-new sport in 1904. Selwyn Edge initially won the race off Cowes (Isle of Wight) in the British-made Napier Minor as a...

Dreamland was a theme park at Coney Island, Brooklyn that opened in 1904. One of its major attractions was the stunt spectacular "Fighting the...

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

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

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 womens' basketball game from 1904, documented.

It's one on those thingies you see at amusement parks. You get into a small gondola, the machine starts whirling about, and centrifugal force lifts...

It's clearly set in a studio set and people are walking about on the "street" in front of a window. A woman enters the window frame, and pulls off...

A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.

A tramp kills a generous woman. In revenge, her husband tracks down and lynches the tramp.

In this one, we have a tracking shot, starting from a long distance into a close up as policemen restrain a woman for her mug shot -- and she does...

Japanese kill a Russian sentry, charge the outpost and fight the Cossacks.