Movies 1904 Page 8

This farce is built around the efforts and frustrations of a woman who attempts to get through a narrow door while wearing a hoopskirt. She finally...

Despite his younger sister's remonstrances, a precocious schoolboy wants to smoke a cigarette he stole from his father. But he is soon punished for...

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

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...

It is the birthday of Uncle Rube, a foxy old peasant who has gathered at his table his family and his help, among whom is a sleepy farmhand, a boy...

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

A short film capturing a fox and rabbits.

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

Another example of early filmmakers capturing on film anything that happened to be moving in America in 1904.

Recreation of a real-life fire that took 602 lives.

A married couple faces the demands of what Theodore Roosevelt called 'the strenuous life'.

A corset maker -- for those of you who don't know what that it, it was a tight of highly reinforced girdle which gave the wearer an 'hourglass'...

The first scenes were photographed from a boat that was either rowed or sculled along the waterway of the st. Louis exposition. The film shows the...

A magic show.

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

"Children in the Surf, Coney Island" is a very short documentary with Billy Bitzer behind the camera.

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....

Two black men are stealing chickens and get chased by the white farmers.

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying...

A young girl tries to feed a puppy.

A convention of the fraternal order of Shriners was the subject of this film, photographed at Luna Park in Coney Island, New York. During the film,...

This movie shows the bombardment by the Japanese of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.

Numerous women sit in rows at machines where they appear to be winding some type of wire and tooling it onto machines. Two young men push spools of...

A large size view of a pretty baby playing with half-dozen little puppies on the sand at the seashore. The action is very cunning and the...

It's another crowded day in the water at Coney Island, with people shoving small boats out of the way so they can have enough room the splash about...

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

Employees leaving Westinghouse Works .

Two small boys with policemen's hats and nightsticks are struggling with another small boy. The object of their struggle seems to be to arrest him....

A large group of men are shown performing various tasks in one room at the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. On one side, men are shown pouring a hot liquid...

Scene IV of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a kitchen and Bridget busy making crullers. Buster enters and begs Bridget to give him one. Bridget...

Naval review.

Shows a parade through bunting-draped streets, probably in the town of Leominster, Mass.

Lomas, a talented photographer specializing in wildlife and hunting subjects, turned his hand to filming for Charles Urban, making several trips to...

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

Some cowboys of the Wild West Show saddle bronchos not without difficulties.

Baby Parade at Asbury Park, N.J., in 1904.

A self-explanatory title for a highly simple film.

Documentary clips from Palestine.

Newsreel footage of an execution by beheading of Li-Tang, the Chinches chief of a band of Manchurian bandits. Shot during the Russo Japanese war by...