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.

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

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

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...

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

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

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

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...

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

A Japanese-set magic show. There is a lot of visual trickery on display, ending with an amazing effect using reverse footage and...

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

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...

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

A turbine is shown operating.

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

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

Men working in teams carry buckets of molten material and pour the material into what appear to be molds lined up on the ground.

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

A group of men weld one area of a large ring in a fire. They lift the ring, which is hanging horizontally on chains, out of the fire. Four men hammer...