1904 Movies

"This view represents a grand transformation scene of several tableaux, the more interesting and the more surprising in the order of their presentatio...

Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup

[A]n excerpt from the novel by a chap named Marchmont in which the hero, a fellow with the heroic name of Hamylton Tregethner attempts to dissuade a f...

1. Jaffa from the Sea. The Port of Jerusalem. 2. Through the Rocks and Surf. The Syrian boatmen shooting the narrows. 3. The Landing Stage. Showing th...

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 po...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The launch of the ship Regina Elena.

The comedy generally known as “The Barber of Sevilla” is strongly recommended because it contains nothing offensive nor objectionable, and also that i...

Distributed under the title of ‘Switzerland’ or ‘Playground of Europe’, the film consists of a collection of scenes filmed in the Alps by Frank Ormist...

A performing magician divides into two people. The doubles then take turns doing tricks before merging back into one man.

A comedy of faux Frenchmen who engage in a duel over some slight disagreement and who manage to shoot everyone but each other. Filmed by James Willia...

A criminal woman is brought in by the police to be photographed (a mug-shot, presumably),capturing her making faces or grimacing. This simple, short...

A grand series of exciting and unique pictures, photographed in the United States of America, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.

This short, otherwise unremarkable feature is of some interest because of the way that it unabashedly caters to the tastes that it perceived in its au...

A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in.

A documentary recording of the Šibenik port from 1904, by Frank S. Mottershaw. For a long time considered to be the oldest extant Croatian film and re...

What appear to be molds pass some men by on conveyor belts. The men take them off the belt and dump the contents onto the ground. Other men pick up wi...

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 scarecrow...