Most Viewed Year 1904 - 2

A fairly venturesome piece of filmmaking for the era: Based on the Jules Verne story, the film utilizes a dozen cuts, irised lenses, panning shots...

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

The film depicts the assassination of the Russian minister in charge of the secret police. The bombing assault against the Chief of Police, Von...

It's one on those thingies you see at amusement parks. You get into a small gondola, the machine starts whirling about, and centrifugal force lifts...

Frenchman Count Hardup advertises for a wife. He gets more than he bargained for when women start chasing him. He's caught by an old maid.

An aged villager, reminded of his boyhood days in the church choir by the sound of the bells, totters to the church door and begs the vicar to allow...

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

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...

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...

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...

The Brahmin, Iftikar, who enjoys a great reputation in India, has determined to create something miraculous which will place the seal upon his...

Shows a band of mischievous cowboys being chased by Indians. A number of shots are fired at the pursuing Indians by the cow punchers, and the...

The 1904–1905 Pathé short Un coup d’œil par étage (literally “A Glance on Each Floor”) is an inventive...

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 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...

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...

The story concerns a women who meets a dashing and prosperous man with a car (1904!), and they proceed to have a good time together. They settle...

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

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...

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