Most Viewed Year 1904

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.

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...

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

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.

Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Edison film studio.

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

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...

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

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

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

This Gaston Velle movie from 1904 was a fairly venturesome piece of film-making for the era. First, its credits include Jules Verne: his second after...

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

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

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...

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

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

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...