Most Viewed Year 1904 - 2

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

A man who has placed a personal advertisement for a prospective wife goes to wait at the meeting place that he designated. Soon a woman comes in...

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

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...

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...

A woman stands in front of a building, a chair to her left, dressed in black, full skirt, quarter sleeves, and a scooped bodice. Her hair is piled...

A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...

A turbine is shown operating.

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...

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other...

Klingsor seeks admission to the Holy Grail. Evil summons Kundry. Herzeloid appears with the child Parsifal. Crowning of Amfortas. Wounding of...

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

During a strike, several workers are killed in a confrontation. The wife of one of them kills the factory owner. At her trial, the owner's son asks...

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...