1904 Movies

Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.

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

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

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

A band of robbers are playing cards in the foreground of the picture. Suddenly one of the gang who has been on the lookout for the stage coach rides u...

A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations.

A magic show.

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

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...

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...

Opens with a woman posing on a pedestal, dressed in a white body leotard with a sash tied at her hips. Marshall continues with various feminine poses,...

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

A woman agrees to kiss the winner of a race between a horse and a motorcar.

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

Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been treat...

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 s...

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

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

Documentary snippets from the lives of miners.

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.